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Re: [PATCH 1/2] report bad ELF interpreter if it causes exec to fail

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From: Philippe Troin <phil@xxxxxxxx>
To: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] report bad ELF interpreter if it causes exec to fail
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:41:27 -0700
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On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 15:25 +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> This is already implemented <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/60870> in some
> distributions of bash and tcsh <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/711066>.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> echo 'int main () { return 0; }' > u.c
> gcc -o u u.c -Wl,-dynamic-linker,/foo/bar/baz
> zsh -c ./u
> 
> Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/711067

This is such a corner case.
It shouldn't be the shell's job to reinterpret the errno codes returned
by the underlying OS.
This patch does not belong in the shell code IMHO, but at a lower-level.

I've noticed that this patch has not been accepted upstream in bash yet.

Phil.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] report bad ELF interpreter if it causes exec to fail
  - From: Bart Schaefer

References:
- [PATCH 1/2] report bad ELF interpreter if it causes exec to fail
  - From: Kamil Dudka

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