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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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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