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

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon Mar 29 2010 - 12:00:16 EST


Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> 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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