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

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Message-ID: <a36005b51003290757v1de2e357u7478a79fa1c466a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:57:05 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
To:	Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...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 Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 07:40, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com> wrote:
> File not found is a very common error message with a pretty will
> understood meaning. Overloading it in this way causes confusion.

Again and again: this is not the message the user should ever see.  On
its own.  Once you precede it with the message about the dynamic
linker not being found and the name the ENOENT string is the right
one.
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