Unexpected fallout from /usr merge in Debian

Posted Dec 5, 2018 7:13 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Unexpected fallout from /usr merge in Debian by ballombe
Parent article: Unexpected fallout from /usr merge in Debian

Also usin genv prevnt you to pass an option since the kernel allows a single option.

I have wondered about this. With scripting languages, passing more options on a #! line would sometimes be useful. Is there a technical reason, or just tradition? If an unlimited argument count is not feasible (and is probably not needed), even raising the limit to 10 arguments or so would help.

Unexpected fallout from /usr merge in Debian

Posted Dec 5, 2018 16:50 UTC (Wed) by Liskni_si (subscriber, #91943) [Link]

env in FreeBSD and macOS has a -S option that makes passing additional options possible (https://ss64.com/osx/env.html, https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?env), and coreutils' env has it since July's release as well (https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/668306ed86c...).