From 6edee55e57bdd194ecaa840a62e8923cde0c182f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: csoler <retroshare.project@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:32:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added error message when thread creation fails

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code/trunk@4112 b45a01b8-16f6-495d-af2f-9b41ad6348cc
---
 libretroshare/src/util/rsthreads.cc | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libretroshare/src/util/rsthreads.cc b/libretroshare/src/util/rsthreads.cc
index e18eb1905..eeb61fff1 100644
--- a/libretroshare/src/util/rsthreads.cc
+++ b/libretroshare/src/util/rsthreads.cc
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 
 #include "rsthreads.h"
 #include <unistd.h>    /* for usleep() */
+#include <errno.h>    /* for usleep() */
+#include <iostream>
 
 /*******
  * #define DEBUG_THREADS 1
@@ -71,8 +73,12 @@ pthread_t  createThread(RsThread &thread)
       	pthread_create(&tid, &tattr, &rsthread_init, data);
 #endif
 
-      	pthread_create(&tid, 0, &rsthread_init, data);
-      	thread.mTid = tid;
+			int err ;
+
+			if( 0 == (err=pthread_create(&tid, 0, &rsthread_init, data))) 
+				thread.mTid = tid;
+			else
+				std::cerr << "Fatal error: pthread_create could not create a thread. Error returned: " << err << " !!!!!!!" << std::endl;
     }
     thread.mMutex.unlock();