Re: #! and argv[0]: the path is removed before invoking the interpreter

From: Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 18:45:09 EST

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    In <E12LBjK-0000Xp-00@the-village.bc.nu> Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
    >> I believe the behavior of #! on Solaris goes all the way back to BSD
    >> in of the early 80's. FreeBSD 3.0 behaves as Solaris does.
    >>
    >> I hope this considered a bug. If there willingness to take a patch for
    >> it, I might work on making the fix.

    > Im not sure about bug, but its certainly worth behaving the same way as
    > everyone else in this case if its appropriate to do so. Take a look at
    > the fs/binfmt* code and sure - send a patch

    IMO it's better be CONSISTENT. Either
      1) argv[0] is always the same thing that was passed to execv
    or
      2) argv[0] is always "realpath" to executable.

    Since in case of "real binary" we doing 1) IMNSHO we should do this in case
    of script as well...

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