Bug 908534

Summary: Shebang line '#!/usr/bin/env ruby --verbose' complains on 'ruby --verbose'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: admiller, kdudka, kzak, ovasik, p, rrakus, twaugh
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2013-02-06 23:53:32 UTC 
Created attachment 694191 [details]
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Description of problem:
Shebang line '#!/usr/bin/env ruby --verbose' complains it doesn't find 'ruby --verbose'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-8.17-8.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run a simple script with the give shebang
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Actual results:
/usr/bin/env: ruby --verbose: No such file or directory

Expected results:
Run the script

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Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2013-02-07 16:12:23 UTC 
I guess bash is probably playing some game here - try to run e.g. /usr/bin/env ls -l  -> it works - and if you use it as a shebang, it doesn't... adding Bash maintainer to CC.
Comment 2 Roman Rakus 2013-02-08 00:33:36 UTC 
The executor is kernel. From my quick search the correct "shebang" line is:
#!interpreter [argument]

and argument is only 1 argument and couldn't contain white space. I didn't find any specification.

What bash do:
1) tries to call execve() function to execute the command - our kernel interprets the shebang line
2) It's possible the kernel doesn't support shebang line interpretation and bash can do it itself. However also bash interprets only 1 argument.

In other words, there is no option to provide more than one argument for interpreter in shebang.
Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2013-02-08 09:40:33 UTC 
Ok, thanks for explanation Roman - closing NOTABUG - as this is not a bug in coreutils and it seems to be correct behaviour. Maybe it could be filed as RFE for kernel to improve the shebang handling of multiargs.