From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:19:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (run_shell): Exit with status 126 or 127 when execvp or
X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-2_0_14~32
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2b62daff5ce17691ecd36c1b48727212df34184;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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

diff --git a/src/su.c b/src/su.c
index 65bb8b3fc5..3d834679ef 100644
--- a/src/su.c
+++ b/src/su.c
@@ -397,8 +397,12 @@ run_shell (const char *shell, const char *command, char **additional_args)
       args[argno++] = *additional_args;
   args[argno] = NULL;
   execv (shell, (char **) args);
-  error (0, errno, _("cannot run %s"), shell);
-  exit (1);
+
+  {
+    int exit_status = (errno == ENOENT ? 127 : 126);
+    error (0, errno, "%s", shell);
+    exit (exit_status);
+  }
 }
 
 /* Return 1 if SHELL is a restricted shell (one not returned by