strace on a2ps complains about \Device\Harddisk4\DR4

Csaba Raduly rcsaba@gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 13:24:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:20 AM, René Berber  wrote:
> Rasputin Paskudniak wrote:
>> First step: What is the exit code?  echo $? displays 127. (errno.h tells
>> me this is related to sockets.  Highly unlikely.)  So I decided to run
>> it with strace:
>
> ... you followed the wrong procedure.
>
> To get the error description you do:
>
> $ net helpmsg 127
>
> The specified procedure could not be found.

That's neither an errno, nor a Windows error code. It's more likely a
special exit code from the shell signifying: "command not found".
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html


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