Changeset 109302 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/process-creation-posix.cpp

Timestamp:

May 16, 2025 2:35:53 PM (30 hours ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

168907

Message:

IPRT/process-creation-posix.cpp: Also handle EACCES for execve() via RTAssertMsg2Weak(), to give users some more clues in case of enabled SELinux policies. bugref:10903

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/process-creation-posix.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/process-creation-posix.cpp

@@ -2302 +2302 @@
                 RTAssertMsg2Weak("Cannot execute this binary format!\n");
             }
+            else if (errno == EACCES)
+            {
+                /* This can happen if file isn't marked as being executable or SELinux is enabled for prohibits using execve.*/
+                RTAssertMsg2Weak("Permission denied executing this binary -- check execute permissions and/or SELinux policies!\n");
+            }
             else
                 RTAssertMsg2Weak("execve returns %d errno=%d (%s)\n", rc, errno, pszNativeExec);