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

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Message-ID: <a36005b51003261415u1cc89f84r843abaa81f1d7396@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:15:55 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
To:	Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@...il.com>
Cc:	Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:06, Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@...il.com> wrote:
>>> None of these perfectly fit, but EINVAL seems the closest.
>>
>> No.  ENOENT is the right value.
>
> Not according to POSIX 2008, which does not explicitly specify this case.

That argumentation is bogus.  You wrote yourself, this situation isn't
(and cannot) be described in POSIX.  For such cases the any error
value is consistent with POSIX.


Again: any value is as good as any other.  The existing value works
and changing it breaks existing code.
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