On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:42, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
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> $ ls -l
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olaf olaf 560165 2010-03-18 15:21 xwis
> $ ./xwis
> -bash: ./xwis: No such file or directory

Your shell should handle this.  I'm not sure whether it's in the upstream bash (it should be) but I wrote a long, long time ago a patch which produces better messages.  On my system I get:

$ ./u
bash: ./u: /some/path/does-not-exist: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory


It doesn't really matter what the kernel returns.  The shell should do its job and at least the RHEL/Fedora version does it for a long time now.