There is at last one more case: binfmt_misc on Linux, which gives you Windows-style run-based-on-file-extension. I had a run-in with it on a shared host with s

There is at last one more case: binfmt_misc on Linux, which gives you Windows-style run-based-on-file-extension. I had a run-in with it on a shared host with some PHP cron jobs (don't ask). The hosting company changed the handler for *.php and everything broke until I renamed the files. The whole story: http://serverfault.com/questions/82296/when-do-file-extensions-override-shebang-lines-on-linux http://serverfault.com/questions/82296/when-do-file-extensio...