From: Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>
To: kbd@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: [kbd] [PATCH] Print an error message when calls to exec* functions fail
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:47:25 +0200
Message-ID: <1218703645-4123-1-git-send-email-michi@uiae.at> (raw)
Patch proposed by Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.co.uk> on
<http://bugs.debian.org/190387>.
Signed-off-by: Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>
---
src/openvt.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/openvt.c b/src/openvt.c
index 0ae4d54..666b6e9 100644
--- a/src/openvt.c
+++ b/src/openvt.c
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ got_vtno:
execlp(cmd, def_cmd, NULL);
else
execvp(cmd, &argv[optind]);
+ perror("openvt: exec failed");
_exit(127); /* exec failed */
}
--
1.5.6.3
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