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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>,
	Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:00:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k4svuni6.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2cc26e41003290740i5c548cabgc95d91958cd1075a@mail.gmail.com> (Olaf van der Spek's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:40:36 +0200")

Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-29 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <b2cc26e41003241537h228028c4n1374f4b042175885@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-24 22:45 ` execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found drepper
2010-03-25 19:29   ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-25 21:00     ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-26 11:56       ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-26 18:40         ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-26 21:06         ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-26 21:15           ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-27 11:50             ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-27 12:05               ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-29 14:40                 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-29 14:57                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-29 16:00                   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-03-31 19:36                     ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-27 14:51             ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-18 14:42 Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-24 13:35 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-24 13:49 ` drepper
2010-03-24 22:10   ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-03-24 22:35     ` drepper

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