From: Dirk Koopman <djk@tobit.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:47:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: fix barf on encountering an empty lockfile
X-Git-Tag: 1.56~2
X-Git-Url: http://dxcluster.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=84fb1f6e7089c24454eeb92bf093e31682db4489;p=spider.git

fix barf on encountering an empty lockfile
---

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index ee387f88..728884b1 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+20Dec11=======================================================================
+1. fix strange startup repeating lockfile issue where (somehow) there is an
+empty (but existing) lockfile, from GB7YDX.
 29Nov11=======================================================================
 1. fix shutdown() in Msg.pm
 2. Add CTY2117 changes
diff --git a/perl/Version.pm b/perl/Version.pm
index 0fa2a1db..4c2a3740 100644
--- a/perl/Version.pm
+++ b/perl/Version.pm
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use vars qw($version $subversion $build $gitversion);
 
 $version = '1.55';
 $subversion = '0';
-$build = '98';
-$gitversion = '192c703';
+$build = '99';
+$gitversion = '3c2ea66';
 
 1;
diff --git a/perl/cluster.pl b/perl/cluster.pl
index a33e6da5..5c3f0fb9 100755
--- a/perl/cluster.pl
+++ b/perl/cluster.pl
@@ -34,11 +34,14 @@ BEGIN {
 	# try to create and lock a lockfile (this isn't atomic but
 	# should do for now
 	$lockfn = "$root/local/cluster.lck";       # lock file name
-	if (-e $lockfn) {
+	if (-w $lockfn) {
 		open(CLLOCK, "$lockfn") or die "Can't open Lockfile ($lockfn) $!";
 		my $pid = <CLLOCK>;
-		chomp $pid;
-		die "Lockfile ($lockfn) and process $pid exist, another cluster running?" if kill 0, $pid;
+		if ($pid) {
+			chomp $pid;
+			die "Lockfile ($lockfn) and process $pid exist, another cluster running?" if kill 0, $pid;
+		}
+		unlink $lockfn;
 		close CLLOCK;
 	}
 	open(CLLOCK, ">$lockfn") or die "Can't open Lockfile ($lockfn) $!";