[TUHS] Shell control through external commands

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2016, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> I think that the way the shell "recognized" scripts was by having exec 
> fail, otherwise how would it know?  I think we'll have to go grubbing in 
> the source archives to be sure.

Correct; if the exec failed then the invoking shell assumed that it was a 
shell script, and spawned a shell to run it.

With the #! hack, it had to be followed by the full path name (white space 
optional) and the kernel ran it directly.

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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."