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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Bourne vs. C Shells - C Shell is faster.
Message-ID: <1414@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 11:17:13 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1414
Posted: Mon Apr 15 11:17:13 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Apr-85 08:15:29 EST
References: <216@sdcc12.UUCP> <12138@watmath.UUCP> <84@tekcrl.UUCP> <179@tektools.UUCP> <162@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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Summary: 

In article <162@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>Near as I can tell, the first line only works if you are running the
>C shell under 4BSD, which interprets the #! business.

This is a common misconception, that has been "cleared up" many times on
this newsgroup.  It is NOT THE CSH that interperts the #! business, but
the kernel.  (I have also heard claims that execvp does it.  This is not
true either.)  Again: the KERNEL interprets the #! "magic number", NOT
THE SHELL.

(Will this be the last time? (Of course not!))
-- 
=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
	"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way
	 -- *and the fools know it*." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes