bosserver: Catch failures to create daemon thread

If we can't create the bozo daemon thread, then don't keep going
regardless. Just warn the user and exit.

Caught by coverity (#988414)

Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/9269
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(cherry picked from commit 4587ddc130547b4cce723476cfa798a03ccc0320)

Change-Id: I4dcf67f4aeb2533ad39e9b1b0202d00205584118
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/11011
Reviewed-by: Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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Reviewed-by: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de>

diff --git a/src/bozo/bosserver.c b/src/bozo/bosserver.c
index de3e49155d6cb4fdfde54ecec4e4d412f8ffca98..6277c8ac2a9192180f13117a32680ddb9306f321 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bozo/bosserver.c
+++ b/src/bozo/bosserver.c
@@ -1121,6 +1121,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
     code = LWP_CreateProcess(BozoDaemon, BOZO_LWP_STACKSIZE, /* priority */ 1,
                             /* param */ NULL , "bozo-the-clown",
                             &bozo_pid);
+    if (code) {
+       bozo_Log("Failed to create daemon thread\n");
+        exit(1);
+    }
 
     /* try to read the key from the config file */
     tdir = afsconf_Open(AFSDIR_SERVER_ETC_DIRPATH);