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

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Date:	Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:50:18 +0100
From:	Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
Cc:	Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@...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 10:15 PM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com> wrote:
>> 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.

It didn't 'work' for me.
What code would break?

Olaf
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