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authorSergey Bugaev <bugaevc@serenityos.org>2020-04-19 10:33:08 +0300
committerAndreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>2020-04-19 11:14:26 +0200
commit50c139e61c8fa47a22ff042534da4090eb3c5569 (patch)
treeba13153a7470abe650dd9251c882c20be8c6102f /Libraries
parentf8b2a7b4a71243fc749d5c466920a1769e5e2982 (diff)
downloadserenity-50c139e61c8fa47a22ff042534da4090eb3c5569.zip
LibCore: Check for fork() failure
For those good boy points :^)
Diffstat (limited to 'Libraries')
-rw-r--r--Libraries/LibCore/DesktopServices.cpp7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Libraries/LibCore/DesktopServices.cpp b/Libraries/LibCore/DesktopServices.cpp
index 393fee2ee2..5fb396593f 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibCore/DesktopServices.cpp
+++ b/Libraries/LibCore/DesktopServices.cpp
@@ -44,7 +44,12 @@ bool DesktopServices::open(const URL& url)
bool spawn(String executable, String argument)
{
- if (fork() == 0) {
+ pid_t child_pid = fork();
+ if (child_pid < 0) {
+ perror("fork");
+ return false;
+ }
+ if (child_pid == 0) {
if (execl(executable.characters(), executable.characters(), argument.characters(), nullptr) < 0) {
perror("execl");
return false;