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On Wed, 04 Dec 2002, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> See http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/various/shebang/ . FreeBSD is the
> *only* OS to pass multiple arguments. SUS says nothing about it, and
> pretty much every single implementation varies. It does not work
> everywhere else.

Now that's a useful resource.

> File a bug against perlrun(1).

Hum, no. In fact, the offending line will work:

- on systems that only pass on the first argument or none at all
- on systems that split on whitespace
- on /bin/sh that silently ignore options starting with "-- "

So it's somewhat compatible already.