From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:50:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): Exit with status 126 or 127 when execvp or
X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-2_0_14~33
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6005c2ba495a584d82fd812c8c0e702b97cb6d0;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(main): Exit with status 126 or 127 when execvp or
execv fails, for consistency with POSIX commands like env and nice.
---

diff --git a/src/chroot.c b/src/chroot.c
index 7600875879..4904c84d6d 100644
--- a/src/chroot.c
+++ b/src/chroot.c
@@ -102,8 +102,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 
   /* Execute the given command.  */
   execvp (argv[0], argv);
-  error (1, errno, _("cannot execute %s"), argv[0]);
 
-  exit (1);
-  return 1;
+  {
+    int exit_status = (errno == ENOENT ? 127 : 126);
+    error (0, errno, "%s", argv[0]);
+    exit (exit_status);
+  }
 }