Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Previously, failures during execvp could be detected only by > finish_command. However, in some situations it is beneficial for the > parent process to know earlier that the child process will not run. > > The idea to use a pipe to signal failures to the parent process and > the test case were lifted from patches by Ilari Liusvaara. I wonder if we can do this without pipe, perhaps using "vfork, exec, then update a variable".... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html