process-util: introduce report_errno_and_exit() as part of src/basic/process-util.{h,c}

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/process-util.c b/src/basic/process-util.c
index 75bc65652e..ee0edfaf94 100644
--- a/src/basic/process-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/process-util.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include "fileio.h"
 #include "fs-util.h"
 #include "hostname-util.h"
+#include "io-util.h"
 #include "locale-util.h"
 #include "log.h"
 #include "macro.h"
@@ -2238,3 +2239,18 @@ static const char* const sched_policy_table[] = {
 };
 
 DEFINE_STRING_TABLE_LOOKUP_WITH_FALLBACK(sched_policy, int, INT_MAX);
+
+_noreturn_ void report_errno_and_exit(int errno_fd, int error) {
+        int r;
+
+        if (error >= 0)
+                _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+
+        assert(errno_fd >= 0);
+
+        r = loop_write(errno_fd, &error, sizeof(error));
+        if (r < 0)
+                log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to write errno to errno_fd=%d: %m", errno_fd);
+
+        _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+}
diff --git a/src/basic/process-util.h b/src/basic/process-util.h
index cb6d47a5bb..0763b64cff 100644
--- a/src/basic/process-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/process-util.h
@@ -273,3 +273,5 @@ int posix_spawn_wrapper(
 int proc_dir_open(DIR **ret);
 int proc_dir_read(DIR *d, pid_t *ret);
 int proc_dir_read_pidref(DIR *d, PidRef *ret);
+
+_noreturn_ void report_errno_and_exit(int errno_fd, int error);