1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cmd/podman/utils/error.go b/cmd/podman/utils/error.go
index 2aaa71373..3efff0301 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/utils/error.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/utils/error.go
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"os/exec"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
 	buildahCLI "github.com/containers/buildah/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/containers/podman/v4/cmd/podman/registry"
 )
 
 type OutputErrors []error
@@ -43,3 +45,33 @@ func ExitCodeFromBuildError(errorMsg string) (int, error) {
 	}
 	return buildahCLI.ExecErrorCodeGeneric, errors.New("message does not contains a valid exit code")
 }
+
+// HandleOSExecError checks the given error for an exec.ExitError error and
+// sets the same podman exit code as the error.
+// No error will be returned in this case to make sure things like podman
+// unshare false work correctly without extra output.
+// When the exec file does not exists we set the exit code to 127, for
+// permission errors 126 is used as exit code. In this case we still return
+// the error so the user gets an error message.
+// If the error is nil it returns nil.
+func HandleOSExecError(err error) error {
+	if err == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var exitError *exec.ExitError
+	if errors.As(err, &exitError) {
+		// the user command inside the unshare/ssh env has failed
+		// we set the exit code, do not return the error to the user
+		// otherwise "exit status X" will be printed
+		registry.SetExitCode(exitError.ExitCode())
+		return nil
+	}
+	// cmd.Run() can return fs.ErrNotExist, fs.ErrPermission or exec.ErrNotFound
+	// follow podman run/exec standard with the exit codes
+	if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) || errors.Is(err, exec.ErrNotFound) {
+		registry.SetExitCode(127)
+	} else if errors.Is(err, os.ErrPermission) {
+		registry.SetExitCode(126)
+	}
+	return err
+}