threads: improve spawn failure error reporting

2 years ago · 8dc12f5f14
parent 26130d903f
commit 8dc12f5f14
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/src/tm-threads.c
+++ b/src/tm-threads.c
@ -1671,7 +1671,8 @@ TmEcode TmThreadSpawn(ThreadVars *tv)

    int rc = pthread_create(&tv->t, &attr, tv->tm_func, (void *)tv);
    if (rc) {
-        FatalError("Unable to create thread with pthread_create() is %" PRId32, rc);
+        FatalError("Unable to create thread with pthread_create(): retval %d: %s", rc,
+                strerror(errno));
    }

 #if DEBUG && HAVE_PTHREAD_GETATTR_NP