Saw the same thing in Zsh on my laptop. I tried to execute something I knew
didn't exist (randomly hitting letters on keyboard) and get permission
denied. I was root at the time.
> In the /bin/blah case, bash has a fully-qualified command
> name to work with, so it doesn't have to do a path search.
> Rather, it proceeds directly to doing a stat or open on the
> file which for some reason fails with an EPERM (I'm not going
> to argue whether that's right or wrong without perusing the source).
>
> In the second case, bash must do a path search, so it does
> stats on /path/blah for every path in your PATH. Since those
> all fail, it prints that fact - i.e. command not found. Two
> different mechanisms resulting in two different but understandable
> error messages.
>
> I think the argument could be made either way. Some might
> see this as two completely different scenarios, since one
> involves a path search and one doesn't. Others might expect,
> as it seems you do, that the base of the "problem" is really
> the same, so the error messages should be the same. I can't
> say as I really have a strong opinion either way. But I
> figured it might help if we understand from whence cometh
> the difference...
>
>
> tw
>
>
>
> On 03/25/2000 22:12 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:50:58PM +0200, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> >> > Hello!
> >> >
> >> > I just found something that looks somewhat weird:
> >> > mordor:~$ /bin/nonexistent_binary
> >> > bash: ./nonexistent_binary: Permission denied
> >> > mordor:~$ nonexistent_binary
> >> > bash: nonexistent_binary: command not found
> >>
> >> Some issue here (smae kernel, same bash)
> >>
> >> > Shouldn't first attempt also say "command not found"?
> >>
> >> It should.
> >>
> >> > BASH_VERSION='2.03.0(1)-release'
> >> > I'm running 2.3.99-pre3
> >>
> >> Seems to be related to the fs/exec.c changes in pre3
> >>
> >>
> >> Christoph
> >>
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