by the spawned server itself unless it is actually alive
logmsg "startnew: $cmd\n" if ($verbose);
my $child = fork();
- my $pid2;
+ my $pid2 = 0;
if(not defined $child) {
logmsg "startnew: fork() failure detected\n";
my $count = $timeout;
while($count--) {
- if(-f $pidfile) {
- open(PID, "<$pidfile");
+ if(-f $pidfile && -s $pidfile && open(PID, "<$pidfile")) {
$pid2 = 0 + <PID>;
close(PID);
if(($pid2 > 0) && kill(0, $pid2)) {
# similar!
last;
}
+ # invalidate $pid2 if not actually alive
+ $pid2 = 0;
}
if (checkdied($child)) {
logmsg "startnew: child process has died, server might start up\n"