We never had a call to pclose() in here before, leaving our file descriptor in some sort of limbo state. In addition, clean up some of the other logic such as directly calling exit(1) on a popen() failure rather than going to our cleanup block, and handling and respecting the exit status of the subprocess correctly. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> --- lib/libalpm/trans.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/trans.c b/lib/libalpm/trans.c index 73ae822..96ac1bc 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/trans.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/trans.c @@ -551,8 +551,7 @@ int _alpm_runscriptlet(const char *root, const char *installfn, if(!pipe) { _alpm_log(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("call to popen failed (%s)"), strerror(errno)); - retval = 1; - goto cleanup; + exit(1); } while(!feof(pipe)) { char line[PATH_MAX]; @@ -561,7 +560,8 @@ int _alpm_runscriptlet(const char *root, const char *installfn, alpm_logaction("%s", line); EVENT(trans, PM_TRANS_EVT_SCRIPTLET_INFO, line, NULL); } - exit(0); + retval = pclose(pipe); + exit(WEXITSTATUS(retval)); } else { /* this code runs for the parent only (wait on the child) */ pid_t retpid; -- 1.6.0.2