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-rw-r--r-- | lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm index b02d5368..727caf1c 100644 --- a/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm +++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm @@ -210,7 +210,8 @@ sub spawn ($;$$) { } my $cd = $opts->{'-C'} // ''; # undef => NULL mapping doesn't work? my $pid = pi_fork_exec($redir, $f, $cmd, \@env, $rlim, $cd); - $pid < 0 ? undef : $pid; + die "fork_exec failed: $!\n" unless defined $pid; + $pid; } sub popen_rd { |