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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:36:45 +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: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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       Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> File not found is a very common error message with a pretty will
>> understood meaning.
>
> And perfectly applicable here (as you write yourself in the subject).

No, it's not. It does not apply to the argument of the function called.

>> Overloading another error code would avoid this confusion, especially
>> since it's far less used.
>
> Changing a well understood error number into a totally misleading one
> only increases confusion.

Why is it totally misleading? The proposed new one is actually very close.

Olaf