Re: Misleading error when attempting to run foreign executable

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

also enoexist with its description of the ld parser not available

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 16:06 Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
wrote:

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>   > [ENOENT] A component of path or file does not name an existing file
>   > or path or file is an empty string.
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> Then ENOENT is clearly not an appropriate error in this case.
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>   > [EINVAL] The new process image file has appropriate privileges and
>   > has a recognized executable binary format, but the system does not
>   > support execution of a file with this format.
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> I think the most fitting is EINVAL, as Robert said.  Did someone tell
> the Linux kernel people, so they can fix this?  Otherwise I will.
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> Andrea Monaco
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