I'm still seeing this bug with util-linux 2.17.2 as shipped with squeeze. This patch fixes the issue for me:
>From 7d94b203ce0e13d2ac81cce1084ac73c13ca6f31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:32:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] flock: fix misreported error on execvp() failure --- sys-utils/flock.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/sys-utils/flock.c b/sys-utils/flock.c index 75c007c..abfdef5 100644 --- a/sys-utils/flock.c +++ b/sys-utils/flock.c @@ -298,9 +298,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) } else if ( f == 0 ) { if ( do_close ) close(fd); - err = errno; execvp(cmd_argv[0], cmd_argv); /* execvp() failed */ + err = errno; fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s: %s\n", program, cmd_argv[0], strerror(err)); _exit((err == ENOMEM) ? EX_OSERR: EX_UNAVAILABLE); } else { -- 1.7.2.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
