Re: degraded error message in case of hash-bang interpreter error

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/3/24 10:45 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> This is one of those cases I would file under "POSIX being annoyingly literal".
>
> POSIX says that the execve syscall reads the name of an interpreter (and 
> options) from a '#!' line, prefaces them onto the front of argv, and then 
> restarts itself. This is why some people argue that ENOENT is "logical" the 
> interpreter can't be found. (And to be fair, Linux seems to apply this to / 
> any/ missing "interpreter", including the ELF loader.)

It doesn't. You have to deal with what the implementations return and
make your best guess.

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