Re: "What is the !@#$ pathname of Perl on *this* machine?"

Zefram (zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 01:18:42 +0000 (GMT)

Will French wrote:
>> This way, we avoid the conflict altogether.
>
> But that breaks any scripts whose first lines are comments
>that begin with '#?'.

No it doesn't. Any files that start with "#?" are not being exec(2)ed,
and adding special behaviour to the kernel isn't going to affect what
any shell does.

However, there are too many programs that handle "#!" specially that
aren't going to know to handle "#?" in the same way. Perl, for
example.

-zefram