Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: ldd: Also look for not found DLLs when exit status is non-zero

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Sep 11 13:33, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 10/09/2020 15:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Sep 10 13:27, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > If the process exited with e.g. STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND, also process the
> > > file to look for not found DLLs.
> > > 
> > > (We currently only do this when a STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND exception occurs,
> > > which I haven't managed to observe)
> > > 
> > > This still isn't 100% correct, as it only examines the specified file
> > > for missing DLLs, not recursively on the DLLs it depends upon.
> > 
> > Better than nothing?
> 
> Well, except when people are misled when investigating problems because they
> assume the output is accurate. (e.g. [1])
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-September/246164.html
> 
> I guess what's maybe needed is some indication that an error occurred and
> the output may be incomplete if the inferior process exited with a non-zero
> status.  But not sure how we can do that while keeping the output compatible
> with linux ldd.

I assume there *may* occur an error in ldd as well, so it might be
intersting to check the Linux ldd sources to see how it generates
error output.


Corinna