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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:12:56 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return ENOEXEC, not ENOENT, if a binary's or script's
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> They then go and look at /usr/bin/foo, find that it exists, and are 
> extremely confused.

-ENOEXEC is just as confusing. It is executable, it will match
(cmp/md5sum etc) with one on another box etc.

> More advanced users might at that point try and run "ldd" on the binary 
> (which will also fail, thanks to a missing interpreter).

So fix ldd ?