From: Florian Forster <octo@leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:50:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Exec plugin: Reset the "PL_RUNNING" if "fork_child()" fails.
X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.8.4~15
X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=66c0d62a769d8bb363c8d19e82896d6cf5bdcc2b

Exec plugin: Reset the "PL_RUNNING" if "fork_child()" fails.
---

diff --git a/src/exec.c b/src/exec.c
index 3a72ebac..95a6831a 100644
--- a/src/exec.c
+++ b/src/exec.c
@@ -537,7 +537,13 @@ static void *exec_read_one (void *arg) /* {{{ */
 
   status = fork_child (pl, NULL, &fd, &fd_err);
   if (status < 0)
+  {
+    /* Reset the "running" flag */
+    pthread_mutex_lock (&pl_lock);
+    pl->flags &= ~PL_RUNNING;
+    pthread_mutex_unlock (&pl_lock);
     pthread_exit ((void *) 1);
+  }
   pl->pid = status;
 
   assert (pl->pid != 0);