From 2a6c82266b057ab80176067be9aae511571efc34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:53:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] emit error message when socket creation fails

---
 src/fping.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/fping.c b/src/fping.c
index af16061..054c665 100644
--- a/src/fping.c
+++ b/src/fping.c
@@ -463,6 +463,9 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
         usage(0);
     }
 
+    /* enable error messages during socket creation */
+    verbose_flag = 1;
+
     socket4 = open_ping_socket_ipv4(&socktype4);
 #ifdef __linux__
     /* We only treat SOCK_DGRAM differently on Linux, where the IPv4 header
@@ -493,7 +496,6 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 
     optparse_init(&optparse_state, argv);
     ident4 = ident6 = htons(getpid() & 0xFFFF);
-    verbose_flag = 1;
     backoff_flag = 1;
     opterr = 1;
 
-- 
2.25.1