Subject: Re: rc.subr problem with interpreted daemons
To: Ed Ravin <eravin@panix.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/20/2002 15:57:27
[ On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 12:32:00 (-0500), Ed Ravin wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: rc.subr problem with interpreted daemons
> 
> I like this solution, but there's one potential bugaboo:
> 
>    $ head -3 make_class
>    #! /usr/local/bin/scsh \
>    -e main -s
>    !#

How does that work?

> The above fragment is the start of an scsh script I ran into
> the other day.  Do you want to parse these multi-line magic lines?

The kernel doesn't parse them.....  (at least not as far as I can tell,
and it's not a documented feature....)

Is that some strange 'scsh' specific hack to avoid the MAXINTERP limit?

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