From: Pablo Fraile Alonso <pablo@pablofraile.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:32:43 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: shared/edit-util: ignore ENOTDIR when trying editors
X-Git-Tag: v260-rc1~437
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd8d4026d4e7b4664571e923166693642794b505;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

shared/edit-util: ignore ENOTDIR when trying editors
---

diff --git a/src/shared/edit-util.c b/src/shared/edit-util.c
index e5d976fb009..d48c36c1d5c 100644
--- a/src/shared/edit-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/edit-util.c
@@ -298,6 +298,12 @@ static int run_editor_child(const EditFileContext *context) {
 
                 execvp(args[0], (char* const*) args);
 
+                if (errno == ENOTDIR) {
+                        log_debug_errno(errno,
+                                        "Failed to execute '%s': a path component is not a directory, skipping...",
+                                        name);
+                        continue;
+                }
                 /* We do not fail if the editor doesn't exist because we want to try each one of them
                  * before failing. */
                 if (errno != ENOENT)