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-rw-r--r--NEWS1
-rw-r--r--lock.c8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9a897bf8..6baaa633 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ fetchmail 6.3.0 (not yet released officially):
configuration file. Matthias Andree
* Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
+* Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
# INTERNAL CHANGES
* Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
diff --git a/lock.c b/lock.c
index 89bf896a..f29129d1 100644
--- a/lock.c
+++ b/lock.c
@@ -73,9 +73,11 @@ int lock_state(void)
int args = fscanf(lockfp, "%d %d", &pid, &st);
bkgd = (args == 2);
- if (ferror(lockfp))
+ if (ferror(lockfp)) {
fprintf(stderr, GT_("fetchmail: error reading lockfile \"%s\": %s\n"),
lockfile, strerror(errno));
+ exit(PS_EXCLUDE);
+ }
if (args == 0 || kill(pid, 0) == -1) {
fprintf(stderr,GT_("fetchmail: removing stale lockfile\n"));
@@ -86,9 +88,11 @@ int lock_state(void)
fclose(lockfp); /* not checking should be safe, file mode was "r" */
} else {
pid = 0;
- if (errno != ENOENT)
+ if (errno != ENOENT) {
fprintf(stderr, GT_("fetchmail: error opening lockfile \"%s\": %s\n"),
lockfile, strerror(errno));
+ exit(PS_EXCLUDE);
+ }
}
return(bkgd ? -pid : pid);