In the CGI RFC, IIRC they say that what they call a script can totally be a binary. The fact that execve on linux can take a script with a #! shebang makes it i

In the CGI RFC, IIRC they say that what they call a script can totally be a binary. The fact that execve on linux can take a script with a #! shebang makes it it easy to implement, you don't have to care whehter you are exec'ing a binary or a script.