* bug #18655: fix use of admonish() for a fatal error (should

be adios(); only actual effect would be wrong exit code).
Thanks to Craig Leres for spotting this.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4023e456ddf52333c3c4ac17cfe2b0fc105c51fc..7da2dbc0accd1d9055ef5925637a1b9227f7f787 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-04-05  Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+
+       * bug #18655: fix use of admonish() for a fatal error (should
+       be adios(); only actual effect would be wrong exit code).
+       Thanks to Craig Leres for spotting this.
+
 2008-04-05  Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
 
        * bug #20028 (Debian bug 399271): fix code assuming that pointer

diff --git a/uip/mhmail.c b/uip/mhmail.c
index b5da86c6f583301e27091cd7afda8893ca9d0ee6..f08a583a6494824581473cedc635a4f34844d0ae 100644 (file)
--- a/uip/mhmail.c
+++ b/uip/mhmail.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 
     if (child_id == NOTOK) {
        /* report failure and then send it */
-       admonish (NULL, "unable to fork");
+       adios (NULL, "unable to fork");
     } else if (child_id) {
        /* parent process */
        if ((status = pidXwait(child_id, postproc))) {