Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rob From: rob@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: magic numbers Message-ID: <2639@alice.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 12:28:10 EST Article-I.D.: alice.2639 Posted: Mon Mar 5 12:28:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 03:16:54 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 5 opus!rcd complains that the kernel has no business looking for the #!. apparently, he doesn't understand that #! is a magic number, just like 0407 or 0413. the string that is exec'ed is inside the header that the kernel must read (note: must read; so much for 'no business opening' files) to determine that the file is a binary and exec it.