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commit 731fd935ff7d555b462f25b9390f159350deb784
parent 0e1f7fe2ef1f9e8375a19b686754914f62af60d7
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date:   Sat,  1 Aug 2020 11:34:23 +0200

feedback: add the reason to the error message when forking fails

This makes all the "Could not fork" messages the same again
after the change in commit 3eff34b0 from yesterday.

Diffstat:
M
src/files.c
 | 
2
+-
M
src/text.c
 | 
5
+++--

2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/files.c b/src/files.c
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ bool execute_command(const char *command)
 	close(from_fd[1]);
 
 	if (pid_of_command == -1) {
-		statusline(ALERT, _("Could not fork"));
+		statusline(ALERT, _("Could not fork: %s"), strerror(errno));
 		close(from_fd[0]);
 		return FALSE;
 	}
diff --git a/src/text.c b/src/text.c
@@ -2413,7 +2413,8 @@ const char *do_int_speller(const char *tempfile_name)
 	/* When some child process was not forked successfully... */
 	if (pid_spell < 0 || pid_sort < 0 || pid_uniq < 0) {
 		close(uniq_fd[0]);
-		return _("Could not fork");
+		statusline(ALERT, _("Could not fork: %s"), strerror(errno));
+		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	/* Get the system pipe buffer size. */
@@ -2644,7 +2645,7 @@ void do_linter(void)
 	/* If the child process was not forked successfully... */
 	if (pid_lint < 0) {
 		close(lint_fd[0]);
-		statusline(ALERT, _("Could not fork"));
+		statusline(ALERT, _("Could not fork: %s"), strerror(errno));
 		return;
 	}