| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:29:14 +0100 From: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com> To: drepper@...il.com Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:45 PM, <drepper@...il.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 15:37, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com> > wrote: >> >> Why not? >> It's an improvement IMO, although it could be better. > > It's blatantly wrong. There is no dynamic linker. ENOEXEC means the file > exists but is not of the right format. That sounds closer to the actual error than ENOENT. ENOENT: The file filename or a script or ELF interpreter does not exist, or a shared library needed for file or interpreter cannot be found. ENOEXEC: An executable is not in a recognized format, is for the wrong architecture, or has some other format error that means it cannot be executed. ENOENT shouldn't be overloaded like this, as it's common meaning is: file not found. So it shouldn't be returned if the argument to execve is actually found. Olaf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists