bugfix: el_execsequence() needs to exec argv2 when posix_spawn() fails

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexecline/el_execsequence.c b/src/libexecline/el_execsequence.c
index 5adbe49..797aeb5 100644
--- a/src/libexecline/el_execsequence.c
+++ b/src/libexecline/el_execsequence.c
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /* ISC license. */
 
+#include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+
 #include <skalibs/djbunix.h>
 #include <skalibs/env.h>
 #include <skalibs/strerr2.h>
@@ -10,13 +12,22 @@
 void el_execsequence (char const *const *argv1, char const *const *argv2, char const *const *envp)
 {
   size_t j = 2 ;
-  int wstat ;
   char fmt[UINT_FMT + 1] = "?=" ;
   pid_t pid = el_spawn0(argv1[0], argv1, envp) ;
-  if (!pid) strerr_warnwu2sys("spawn ", argv1[0]) ;
-  if (wait_pid(pid, &wstat) < 0)
-    strerr_diefu2sys(111, "wait for ", argv1[0]) ;
+  if (!pid)
+  {
+    strerr_warnwu2sys("spawn ", argv1[0]) ;
+    memcpy(fmt+2, "127", 3) ;
+    j += 3 ;
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    int wstat ;
+    if (wait_pid(pid, &wstat) < 0)
+      strerr_diefu2sys(111, "wait for ", argv1[0]) ;
+    j += uint_fmt(fmt + j, wait_status(wstat)) ;
+  }
+  fmt[j++] = 0 ;
   if (!argv2[0]) _exit(0) ;
-  j += uint_fmt(fmt + j, wait_status(wstat)) ; fmt[j++] = 0 ;
   xpathexec_r(argv2, envp, env_len(envp), fmt, j) ;
 }