spawn: actually die on (vfork|fork) failures

[public-inbox.git] / lib / PublicInbox / Spawn.pm

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Spawn.pm
index b02d536866836cec97ecbfc82002793fc59dbd9c..727caf1c0577663894eb88109675959decd1b39e 100644 (file)
--- 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 {