Strange behaviour of CreateProcess with Linux binary.

[John Found]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 13:12:20 -0500
Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:47 PM, John Found <johnfound at asm32.info> wrote:
> > I have a program running under WINE that need to start some external programs using CreateProcess API function.
> > Some of these programs are Linux ELF executables, some are Windows PE.
> >
> > But recently, after some updates of my Linux distribution (Manjaro 64bit) some of the
> > Linux executables stopped to start this way.
> >
> > CreateProcess returns 0, GetLastError returns 0C1h (193) == ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT
> >
> > The same executable runs fine when started from the Linux path. One example file that
> > behaves such way is xfce4-terminal (but the problem is not limited to only this file).
> >
> > For now I am wrapping such executables in short bash script in order to workaround:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/sh
> > /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal "$@"
> >
> > Any ideas about what is the problem and how can be fixed?
> >
> >
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> > John Found <johnfound at asm32.info>
> >
> >
> 
> Sounds a bit like https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43217
> 

Yes, seems to be this bug. I will try with the patch. Thanks.


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