Re: execve() returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When you try to execute an x86 binary on a x64 system, execve()
> returns ENOENT when ld-linux.so isn't found
> Wouldn't ENOEXEC be more appropriate?
>
>> An executable is not in a recognized format, is for the wrong architecture, or has some other format error that means it cannot be executed.
>
> This just doesn't make any sense:
>
> $ ls -l
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olaf olaf 560165 2010-03-18 15:21 xwis
> $ ./xwis
> -bash: ./xwis: No such file or directory

This is the right list, isn't it?

Olaf
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