don't break in the absence of sendmail

If for whatever reason notify child isn't properly spawned, don't die and still
try to launch process in question

Signed-off-by: Michael Krelin <hacker@klever.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/process.cc b/src/process.cc
index 6d3b2a2..4807b98 100644
--- a/src/process.cc
+++ b/src/process.cc
@@ -171,4 +171,10 @@ void process::notify_mailto(const string& email,const string& id,const string& e
     }
     // parent
+    int status;
+    if(waitpid(pid,&status,WNOHANG)) {
+        close(files[0]);
+        close(files[1]);
+        throw runtime_error("vfork()ed sendmail child exited unexpectedly");
+    }
     close(files[0]);
     FILE *mta = fdopen(files[1],"w");
@@ -189,5 +195,4 @@ void process::notify_mailto(const string& email,const string& id,const string& e
             description.c_str() );
     fclose(mta);
-    int status;
     waitpid(pid,&status,0);
     // TODO: check the return code