Re: No such file or directory

[Eric Blake]

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.

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