Bug 436241

Summary: ferror requires absolute path to executable; doesn't use PATH
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Component: fryskAssignee: Andrew Cagney <cagney>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dave Malcolm 2008-03-06 02:26:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
ferror requires absolute path to executable; doesn't use PATH

Following example from ferror man page:
EXAMPLE
           ferror -e "No such file or directory" -- ls fake

and omitting the path, it fails to find the executable, this is:
[david@brick ~]$ ferror -e "No such file or directory" -- ls fake
Error: open: No such file or directory (file /home/david/ls)

Specifying full path to exe works:
[david@brick ~]$ ferror -e "No such file or directory" -- /bin/ls fake
Tracing 7233.7233

Tool would be much more usable if it looked in PATH, allowing you to omit the
absolute location of the exe.  As it is, the example in the manpage fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
frysk-0.0.1.2008.02.29.rh1-1.fc8

How reproducible:
100%
Comment 1 Andrew Cagney 2008-04-07 18:22:33 UTC 
My fix:

$ ferror -- ls loop.c
Tracing 2485.2485
loop.c