If the wait failed in pclose it would return a random status code

instead of -1 as expected.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libc/stdio/popen.c b/libc/stdio/popen.c
index ddf881899..2fd1fa832 100644
--- a/libc/stdio/popen.c
+++ b/libc/stdio/popen.c
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ int pclose(FILE *fd)
 	if (fclose(fd) != 0) {
 		return EOF;
 	}
-	wait(&waitstat);
+	if (wait(&waitstat) == -1)
+		return -1;
 	return waitstat;
 }