> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> 
> : > Further, the error message printed when you run such a binary is totally
> : > unhelpful.
> The best solution is to fix shells so they will not run scripts `manually'
> by default if exec*() returns ENOEXEC.  Scripts properly prepended with a
> magic number (the #! marker) will be started up by the kernel as expected
> anyway; only those scripts with no magic number would fail.  This would weed
> out the possibility of running a foreign binary as a script.

Well the problem here is that we don't maintain local versions of all
shells. bash, tcsh or zsh are not in our CVS, for instance.

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