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-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm
index 394a0b45..72cd6c3c 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm
@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ if (defined $vfork_spawn) {
                 open my $fh, '>', $f or die "failed to open $f: $!\n";
                 flock($fh, LOCK_EX) or die "LOCK_EX failed on $f: $!\n";
                 eval 'use Inline C => $vfork_spawn';
+                my $err = $@;
                 flock($fh, LOCK_UN) or die "LOCK_UN failed on $f: $!\n";
+                die $err if $err;
         };
         if ($@) {
                 warn "Inline::C failed for vfork: $@\n";