Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site geowhiz.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!geowhiz!karsh From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Clunch protection Message-ID: <144@geowhiz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 23:03:27 EDT Article-I.D.: geowhiz.144 Posted: Tue Oct 16 23:03:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 06:51:47 EDT References: <>, <205@itm.UUCP> <5312@brl-tgr.ARPA> <200@rlgvax.UUCP> <201@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: UW Madison, Geology Dept. Lines: 9 > Dennis Ritchie came up with the notion of permitting executable files to > be executable by an arbitrary interpreter other than the CPU hardware/ > microcode; the way it's done is with a magic "number" of "#!". The > characters following the "#!" are interpreted as the path of the program > to be executed and optional arguments to that program; the path of the > file to be "executed" is given as the last argument. > This has only been implemented on Berkeley systems, to my knowledge. This has also been implemented on Masscomp systems.