From: minima <minima>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:50:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: fix the badspotter / bad node stuff being put all into baddx
X-Git-Tag: R_1_50~50
X-Git-Url: http://dxcluster.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78953f794e49b311d2b2c84bb07c7b0f974278f9;p=spider.git

fix the badspotter / bad node stuff being put all into baddx
---

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 6c97a796..9a8e8aec 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+02Jul02=======================================================================
+1. Fixed the problem with badspotter or badnode being set to baddx if either
+of the data files are missing. 
 25Jun02=======================================================================
 1. as predicted there was an error in the Prefix routine, I have improved it.
 24Jun02=======================================================================
diff --git a/perl/DXHash.pm b/perl/DXHash.pm
index 54faad9b..1ee8bb09 100644
--- a/perl/DXHash.pm
+++ b/perl/DXHash.pm
@@ -35,9 +35,10 @@ sub new
 {
 	my ($pkg, $name) = @_;
 	my $s = readfilestr($main::data, $name);
-	my $self = eval $s if $s;
+	my $self = undef;
+	$self = eval $s if $s;
 	dbg("error in reading $name in DXHash $@") if $@;
-	$self = bless {name => $name}, $pkg unless $self;
+	$self = bless({name => $name}, $pkg) unless defined $self;
 	return $self;
 }