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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2009-06-17 03:54:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2009-06-17 03:58:02 +0200 |
| commit | 7d35535e9b7291f4e66953b7546fd717c6cae95b (patch) | |
| tree | df86a8a3831014e466975b62cac6492af4ace306 /open_issues/adduser.mdwn | |
| parent | 208c5570d90cd41698f63ceda784450ba897a4b7 (diff) | |
| parent | 8da018fafbaa48a65b757d9bce29a316d722619e (diff) | |
explain the posix_spawn error
Diffstat (limited to 'open_issues/adduser.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/adduser.mdwn | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/adduser.mdwn b/open_issues/adduser.mdwn index ac4de2dd..0bfdccbd 100644 --- a/open_issues/adduser.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/adduser.mdwn @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ is included in the section entitled `adduser` does work as expected, the following warnings are spurious, they just appear when one doesn't have the nscd package. They do not appear on linux boxes -because there posix_spawn doesn't report ENOENT... +because there posix_spawn doesn't report ENOENT for exec(). Posix indeed says +that `if the error occurs after the calling process successfully returns, the +child process shall exit with exit status 127'. The hurd doesn't do this, it should. $ sudo adduser foo Adding user `foo' ... |