Re: [FWP] Fun with POD

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 21 Apr 2001, at 13:40, Vicki Brown wrote:

> Let's imagine for a moment that you have a Perl script, fooscript. It starts
> like this, with a POD header all ready for pod2man.
> 
> 		#!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> 		=head 1 NAME
> 
> 		fooscript - a script that really foos
> 
>         =head SYNOPSIS
> 
>         fooscript -f -g -h
> 
> 
> Now, consider foa moment that you've made a small editing mistake. There is a
> blank line above the
> 
> 		#!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> Now, imagine that you run this script...
> 
>         fooscript
> 
> What will your system administrator's reaction be?

Probably not a happy camper.  Unless I'm missing some real trickery, the 
blank line will kill the shebang, and so the kernel will feed the script 
to your shell.  # is a comment and it is unlikely that you have a program 
in your path whose name is '=head', so that'll generate an error... and 
then your program will try to call itself at the

> 		fooscript - a script that really foos

and the new instance will try to call ITSELF, and so on ad infinitum.

  /Bernie\
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