From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  blood curdling exec
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4235
Posted: Fri Nov 19 22:33:14 1982
Received: Sat Nov 20 08:27:54 1982

From:     Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Date:     16 Nov 82 19:07:16 EST  (Tue)
From:     Doug Gwyn <gwyn@Brl>
	
	It seems to me that the place to put the #! recognizer is in the
	system library, not in the kernel exec handler.  However, this
	would work only on readable (not merely executable) scripts...

But the script has to be readable anyway. The interpreter must open the file
for reading. It does NOT have its standard input redirected to the script.
That way ``#!'' scripts can participate in pipes.