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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>wrote: > On 18 January 2012 16:10, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:34:07PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > >> 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. > > Also, who uses the exec-what's-on-the-shebang feature nowadays ? > > > The code is (effectively) stable. Is it getting in the way? > > It's surprising and undocumented. I could document it. But I fear that > the number of users for that hidden feature is 0. > The feature is documented. From perlrun: If the #! line does not contain the word "perl", the program named after the #! is executed instead of the Perl interpreter. This is slightly bizarre, but it helps people on machines that don't do #! , because they can tell a program that their SHELL is */usr/bin/perl*, and Perl will then dispatch the program to the correct interpreter for them. It's just "indir" that's not documented. - EricThread Previous | Thread Next