still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Oct 31 21:03:12 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:21:56PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote:

> I'm not a Perl programmer... but shouldn't scripts be using something like
> #!/usr/bin/env perl rather than hardcoding #!/bin/perl anyway? That's the
> way Python scripts have been written for years (#!/usr/bin/env python),
> long before UsrMove.

Well, /bin/perl would immediately fail on Debian or Ubuntu, so it seems 
pretty unlikely that any upstream is doing it. There are reasons why 
using env can be a bad idea and I don't think it's universal, but 
/bin/perl is certainly wrong.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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