linux-kernel - 4.19.132: ENOENT is misleading when attempting exec of foreign executable

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Message-ID: <87a6hhlnlj.fsf@autistici.org>
Date:   Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:22:48 +0100
From:   Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@...istici.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: 4.19.132: ENOENT is misleading when attempting exec of foreign
 executable

Hello.

When I try to execl an ELF executable from another system I get an
ENOENT.  Maybe the reason is an interpreter not found, but I think that
error is still misleading, because the executable is obviously there.
Perhaps one of EINVAL or ENOEXIST is more fitting.

Warmly,
-- 
Andrea G. Monaco
Lgbt+ activist, hacker, mathematician
"Hope will never be silent!", H. Milk