Ok, thank you for clearing that up. I'm noticing in 4b4d4056bb154 this comment:
"...we just make explicit use of the fact the the child and parent run in the same VM, so the child can write an error code to a field of the posix_spawn_args struct instead of sending it through a pipe. To ensure that this mechanism really works, the parent initializes the field to -1 and the child writes 0 before execing." So, if the child fail to execute, that error code field of the posix_spawn_args struct will remain -1. Would this ensure that QEMU return error in case of failing exec? Best Regards, Eric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1673976 Title: linux-user clone() can't handle glibc posix_spawn() (causes locale-gen to assert) Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I'm running a command (locale-gen) inside of an armv7h chroot mounted on my x86_64 desktop by putting qemu-arm-static into /usr/bin/ of the chroot file system and I get a core dump. locale-gen Generating locales... en_US.UTF-8...localedef: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c:360: __spawnix: Assertion `ec >= 0' failed. qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped /usr/bin/locale-gen: line 41: 34 Aborted (core dumped) localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias $locale I've done this same thing successfully for years, but this breakage has appeared some time in the last 3 or so months. Possibly with the update to qemu version 2.8. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1673976/+subscriptions
