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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: #! (was Re: file attributes)
Message-ID: <16568@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 28 Jun 91 00:49:18 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.192743.8968@sco.COM> <8570@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Jun27.170723.10630@sco.COM>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun27.170723.10630@sco.COM> john@sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) writes:
>To reiterate, I know no *clear* reason why #! should be in the kernel.

The article was a good summary of arguments against the #! implementation.
While useful, the hack indeed doesn't provide a clean solution to a
general problem; practically by definition, then, it is not properly part
of the system kernel.