From fdee1ced43fb495d612a29e955141cdf6b9a95ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:11:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] startProcess: Make writing error messages from the child more
 robust

---
 src/libutil/util.cc | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 6df93f12a0..32244b2185 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -854,8 +854,10 @@ pid_t startProcess(std::function<void()> fun, const string & errorPrefix)
             restoreAffinity();
             fun();
         } catch (std::exception & e) {
-            writeToStderr(errorPrefix + string(e.what()) + "\n");
-        }
+            try {
+                std::cerr << errorPrefix << e.what() << "\n";
+            } catch (...) { }
+        } catch (...) { }
         _exit(1);
     }