Re: Exit status of zero-length executable?

[Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:03 PM Harald van Dijk <harald@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's not specified directly, but if the shell attempts to execute a file
> that execl() rejects with ENOEXEC, and the file is a text file that does
> not start with #!, the standard requires it to be interpreted as a shell
> script. An empty file is a valid text file, so must be treated as an
> empty shell script.

Thanks for the explanation!
- Dan