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Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:10:58 +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 2:49 PM,  <drepper@...il.com> wrote:
> 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

Why?
And why can't the kernel returned the more appropriate ENOEXEC?

> 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.

That should be pushed upstream then.

Olaf
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