From 3635f32123ec73946e00f12c90cf2ce32ee758c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ricardo=20Jer=C3=B3nimo?= <rmjeronimo@netcabo.pt>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:49:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added new function to handle fatal errors

---
 email/patchman-email | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/email/patchman-email b/email/patchman-email
index d59a0a8c..dafc6328 100755
--- a/email/patchman-email
+++ b/email/patchman-email
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ email() {
     fi
 }
 
+fatal() {
+    echo "$@" >&2
+    kill -10 $proc
+}
+
 getConfig() {
     # Gets the configuration of section $1, parameter $2
     val=$(sed -nr "/\[$1\]/,/\[/{/^(\W|)$2=/p}" $CONF)