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Re: Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen> wrote:
> On Aug 13 08:51, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote:
>> > There is no need for the 'no', i'd suggest ELIBBAD.
>>
>> Again, not an error message that exec() should return.
>
> Wrong.  See the Linux man page for execve:
>
> http://linux.die.net/man/2/execve
>
>   ELIBBAD
>       An ELF interpreter was not in a recognized format.

That page also says

EACCES
   Execute permission is denied for the file or a script or ELF interpreter.

I don't see this SxS error an unrecognized format.  The users system
is rather incomplete causing the execution to fail.  The MS solution
is to install the redistributable DLL files.

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