Jason Thorpe writes:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:32:11 -0400 
>  Ted Lemon <mellon@grosse> wrote:
> 
>  > It would make a lot of sense to have the exec code for ELF report
>  > "this is an executable, but I couldn't execute it" rather than "I
>  > don't recognize this" if probing fails but the file is recognizably an
>  > ELF file.
> 
> Why?  We don't do that for a.out...
> 
> Anyhow, exec_script returns ENOEXEC unless there is #! at the beginning
> of the file (script magic number :-), so this is the shell's fault, probably.

Well, the shell in question is /bin/sh, so it is code we own.

Perry