X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FPublicInbox%2FSpawn.pm;h=727caf1c0577663894eb88109675959decd1b39e;hb=e95b4225b32cd561e608e3b9740024ed66fe7b0f;hp=6eea2b9c7ff0886d5e5b0756a5ceb1da04253d30;hpb=39f2513042482162c8bb855c67b3806786e3516e;p=public-inbox.git

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm
index 6eea2b9c..727caf1c 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use base qw(Exporter);
 use Symbol qw(gensym);
-use IO::Handle;
 use PublicInbox::ProcessPipe;
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw/which spawn popen_rd/;
 sub RLIMITS () { qw(RLIMIT_CPU RLIMIT_CORE RLIMIT_DATA) }
@@ -211,7 +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 {
@@ -220,7 +220,6 @@ sub popen_rd {
 	$opts ||= {};
 	$opts->{1} = fileno($w);
 	my $pid = spawn($cmd, $env, $opts);
-	return unless defined $pid;
 	return ($r, $pid) if wantarray;
 	my $ret = gensym;
 	tie *$ret, 'PublicInbox::ProcessPipe', $pid, $r;