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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:34:07PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 17 January 2012 14:32, Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > > >> If I recall correctly, 'indir' was a program designed to indirectly > >> execute other programs. My recollection is that it was supposed to be > >> particularly useful in setuid situations where the OS didn't natively > >> provide you much help, and/or perhaps in situations where the OS kernel > >> limited you to 32 character command lines. > > > > Ah, here it is: > > > > http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/volume21/indir.gz > > I am impressed ! Thanks for digging that out. Thanks. That's useful to know. > I'll push (later) a patch to remove the "indir" special-case. > As for the decision of deprecating (or cutting off) the whole > exec-what's-on-the-shebang functionality, I'll wait for informed > advice. Is there any way to work out who is using this? I'm a bit stuck as to how to measure it. And really without any feeling for whether it's useful to anyone, I find it hard to have an opinion about it. The code is (effectively) stable. Is it getting in the way? Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next