uh uh ForgotPasswordAgain what dark corner you encountered!
This indir shebang thing is handled in toke.c
I found here that indir was a program to call indirectly other programs:
If I recall correctly, 'indir' was a program designed to indirectly
execute other programs. My recollection is that it was supposed to be
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particularly useful in setuid situations where the OS didn't natively
provide you much help, and/or perhaps in situations where the OS kerne
+l
limited you to 32 character command lines.
> Personally I wouldn't object to the removal of this exec feature. Bu
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> at the very least shouldn't we document that "indir" thing ?
I don't think indir is actively maintained, and we don't recommend
doing setuid scripts this way anymore either, so removing the 'indir'
special case is probably appropriate.
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