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

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Message-ID: <m2k4svuni6.fsf@igel.home>
Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:00:01 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com>
Cc:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found

Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com> writes:

> File not found is a very common error message with a pretty will
> understood meaning.

And perfectly applicable here (as you write yourself in the subject).

> Overloading another error code would avoid this confusion, especially
> since it's far less used.

Changing a well understood error number into a totally misleading one
only increases confusion.

Andreas.

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