Re: binfmt_script and ^M

From: Peter Samuelson (peter@cadcamlab.org)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 13:15:10 EST


[Jeff Coy]
> this issue came up frequently with customers uploading scripts in
> binary mode trying to run #!/usr/bin/perl^M. The solution for me was
> to just do the following:
>
> cd /usr/bin
> sudo ln -s perl^V^M perl

So none of your customers tried '#!/usr/bin/perl -w^M'? (Come on,
doesn't everyone use -w?)

I'm not for treating \r as IFS in the kernel, but the "simple one-time"
solution is not perfect..

Peter
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