more progress/results reporting

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tools/hi-q.c b/tools/hi-q.c
index 8f0fb93..a065ad0 100644
--- a/tools/hi-q.c
+++ b/tools/hi-q.c
@@ -309,15 +309,26 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv, char const * const * env) {
 
   for (int ii=0; ii<nkids-1; ii++){        /* loop over N-1 kids */
                                         /* not last kid */
-
 #ifdef testing
     blurb(ii, kidpid);
 #else
     somekid = waitpid(kidpid[ii], &kidstatus, WUNTRACED);
     if (somekid) {}             // avoid silly compiler warning
     if (WIFEXITED(kidstatus)) {
-      if (WEXITSTATUS(kidstatus) == 1) panic(ex_spam);
-      if (WEXITSTATUS(kidstatus) != 0) panic(ex_syserr);
+      int sts = WEXITSTATUS(kidstatus);
+      if (sts == 1) {
+        cerr << "hi-q says: kid " << ii 
+             << " i.e. '" << filter[ii][0] << "' reports spam."
+             << endl;
+        panic(ex_spam);
+      }
+      if (sts != 0) {
+        cerr << "hi-q says: kid " << ii 
+             << " i.e. '" << filter[ii][0] << "'"
+             << " suffered an error: " << sts
+             << endl;
+        panic(ex_syserr);
+      }
       /* otherwise kidstatus==0 and we fall through */
     }
     else panic(ex_syserr);      // any kill, not a normal exit