linux-kernel - Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found

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Message-ID: <g766ycf6hwz4din58tUYAxe124vaj_firegpg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:49:39 -0700 (PST)
From:	drepper@...il.com
To:	Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:42, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com> wrote:
> $ ls -l
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olaf olaf 560165 2010-03-18 15:21 xwis
> $ ./xwis
> -bash: ./xwis: No such file or directory

Your shell should handle this.  I'm not sure whether it's in the upstream bash (it should be) but I wrote a long, long time ago a patch which produces better messages.  On my system I get:

$ ./u
bash: ./u: /some/path/does-not-exist: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

It doesn't really matter what the kernel returns.  The shell should do its job and at least the RHEL/Fedora version does it for a long time now.
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