Re: [PATCH] selftests/exec: allow shell return code of 126

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:19 PM, David Drysdale <drysdale@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When the shell fails to invoke a script because its path name
> is too long (ENAMETOOLONG), most shells return 127 to indicate
> command not found.  However, some systems report 126 (which POSIX
> suggests should indicate a non-executable file) for this case,
> so allow that too.

Thanks, after this patch, the execveat selftest succeeds on m68k with
Debian 4.0.

> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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