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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:40:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found
From: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:50, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It didn't 'work' for me.
>
> You still don't get it?  No shell provides you with a correct error
> message.  There is quite some work involved (reading program header,
> finding the interpreter entry, checking the file) to give a meaningful
> error message.  Changing the error code alone achieves nothing.

File not found is a very common error message with a pretty will
understood meaning. Overloading it in this way causes confusion.
Overloading another error code would avoid this confusion, especially
since it's far less used.

Olaf