Re: Misleading error when attempting to run foreign executable

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/3/21 6:05 PM, Andrea Monaco wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm using bash 5.0.3 on GNU/Linux. When I mount a GNU/Hurd filesystem and
> try to run an executable found there, I get for example:
> 
>   bash: ./ext2fs: No such file or directory
> 
> This seems a misleading error to me. The file is there and is
> executable, I guess it can't be run on my system but I think that
> another error message would be more appropriate.
> 
> Is this an issue with bash or maybe with the kernel?

Bash reports the error it gets back from execve. In this case, it's
probably that the loader specified for the executable isn't present on your
system.

Chet


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