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

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:50, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It didn't 'work' for me.

You still don't get it?  No shell provides you with a correct error
message.  There is quite some work involved (reading program header,
finding the interpreter entry, checking the file) to give a meaningful
error message.  Changing the error code alone achieves nothing.


> What code would break?

At the very least the shells in Red Hat releases for many years.
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