From 9fa7b2b0127205dae37f18e915196e2c39e09e4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:19:24 +0000
Subject: (run_shell): Exit with status 126 or 127 when execvp or execv fails,
 for consistency with POSIX commands like env and nice.

---
 login-utils/su.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'login-utils/su.c')

diff --git a/login-utils/su.c b/login-utils/su.c
index 65bb8b3fc..3d834679e 100644
--- a/login-utils/su.c
+++ b/login-utils/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
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