Error message on unknown format binary

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:40:27PM +0800, Jie Zhang wrote:
>I'm using busybox 1.00-rc3. I don't know if the following is still
>valid for busybox 1.2.2.1 release.
>
>When I tried to run a binary with a format not supported by the linux
>kernel or corrupted binary using msh of busybox as the shell, I got
>
>root:~> ./t
>t: applet not found
>
>With bash, it looks like
>
>$ ./t
>bash: ./t: cannot execute binary file
>
>The error message of busybox is a little confusing. Applet is not a
>common concept for non-busybox developer. And binary filet was indeed
>there, except in unknown format.
>
>Should I report a bug tracking?

If (and only if) you can reproduce it with either current svn or
1.2.2.1, then yes, please file a report.
If it fails with 1.2.2.1 but works with svn, then please say so in your
report.

thanks,