Re: No such file or directory

[Roman Rakus]

On 01/02/2013 03:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/02/2013 07:28 AM, Michael Williamson wrote:
> > Hi Aharon,
> >
> > Thanks for your explanation. Now I have another question.
> > Why is the error message for ENOENT simply
> > "No such file or directory", when the man page for execve
> > has this complete description:
> > "The file filename or a script or ELF interpreter does not exist,
> >   or a shared library needed for file  or  interpreter  cannot  be
> >   found."?
>
> Because that's what strerror() in your libc reports.  It's not bash's
> fault if libc produces a shorter message (correct in the common case)
> than what the man pages says is possible in the more comprehensive case.
I think the best would be if kernel provides more informations.

RR