Merge pull request #3088 from sjackman/safe-fork

safe_fork: Improve the error message

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb
index 92f5bf899..2f2a403e2 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ module Utils
           Process.wait(pid) unless socket.nil?
           raise Marshal.load(data) unless data.nil? || data.empty?
           raise Interrupt if $CHILD_STATUS.exitstatus == 130
-          raise "Suspicious failure" unless $CHILD_STATUS.success?
+          raise "Forked child process failed: #{$CHILD_STATUS}" unless $CHILD_STATUS.success?
         end
       end
     end