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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: #! loader convention
Message-ID: <15865@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 16 Apr 91 20:31:07 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.232541.23205@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Apr15.232541.23205@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
>I believe that the convention of interpreting #! comments in
>"scripts" is built in the loader for BSD. Does anyone know
>if any such mechanism exists at the same level in System V ?

It's handled by code in the kernel (part of the exec() system call).
SVR4 is supposed to support this.