Re: Strange/incorrect behavior of a fake executable file

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/14/18 4:02 PM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:34 PM, Vladimir Likic <v.likic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, meant why is bash executing the file without hash-bang '#!' ?
> 
> You can see the answer here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/execute_cmd.c?h=devel&id=bf5b8103d466fdbc3bfcdaa5e21a0d0c0dce7cba#n5608
> 
> Oversimplified explanation:
> 
> Bash performs the execve() system call on the executable file
> (`junk'). If the system returns ENOEXEC (i.e. not an executable), bash
> will then try to execute the file itself

(if it can determine the file is a text file).

This is a Posix requirement and historical shell behavior that long
predates the introduction of `#!'.

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