https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16502
greenify <greeen...@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |greeen...@gmail.com --- Comment #3 from greenify <greeen...@gmail.com> --- So when I execute the program it prints: > spawnProcess(): Failed to execute program: Exec format error from here: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/3f8298e8531b36dd12420af7ce868e5b2f156f27/std/process.d#L504 If I understand you correctly you want to catch this C API error? This seems me a very valid enhancement request. > Error reporting can be implemented via pipe. Hmm do you know how much overhead this would cost? (introducing something that increases the cost vs. C API always needs a very good justification) --