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Message-ID: <20090730201720.GA30001@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:17:20 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@....EDU>
Cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return ENOEXEC, not ENOENT, if a binary's or script's
interpreter doesn't exist.
On Thu 2009-07-30 13:08:58, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> NAK. Current behaviour is useful -- and it is really file thats
>> missing.
>
> The current behavior is only useful to people who have an understanding
> of how interpreters and binaries work on Linux. The average desktop
> user
Proposed behaviour is useless to everyone.
> does not have that understanding. The average user gets an error message
> such as:
>
> /usr/bin/foo: No such file or directory.
>
> They then go and look at /usr/bin/foo, find that it exists, and are
> extremely confused.
ENOEXEC is confusing, too. It will have x bit.
>> Please improve manpage instead.
>
> What manpage do you suggest needs improvement? execve(2)? That
>again
execve, I'd say.
> requires an average user to realize that they need to go look at the
> execve(2) manpage. The average user is not going to realize that.
Improve shells to provide more helpful error message?
Pavel
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