listamsb: tweak popen() stuff, part 2.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/listamsb.c b/listamsb.c
index 5071dc0..7e673b8 100644
--- a/listamsb.c
+++ b/listamsb.c
@@ -590,7 +590,8 @@ void open_output() {
 		verbose(1, "using pipe for output: %s", pipe_command);
 		outfile = popen(pipe_command, "w"); /* "wb" not allowed! */
 		/* we probably never see this error. popen() fails only is
-		   we feed it an invalid mode, or if fork() or pipe() fails.
+		   we feed it an invalid mode, or if fork() or pipe() fails,
+		   or I suppose if some idjit has done a "rm -f /bin/sh"...
 		   all other errors are caught at pclose(). */
 		if(!outfile) os_err("|%s: %s", pipe_command, strerror(errno));
 		need_pclose = 1;