From 03d3cbfdb9886a5d0654cf4a8f53f064152bbc20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Nicholas J. Kain" <nicholas@kain.us>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:21:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Do not treat a failure to write the pid file after
 backgrounding after obtaining a lease as a fatal error.

---
 ndhc/sys.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ndhc/sys.c b/ndhc/sys.c
index 7db4a75..3f34130 100644
--- a/ndhc/sys.c
+++ b/ndhc/sys.c
@@ -20,10 +20,9 @@ void background(void)
     }
     called = 1;  /* Do not fork again. */
     if (file_exists(pidfile, "w") == -1) {
-        log_line("FATAL - cannot open pidfile for write!");
-        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-    }
-    write_pid(pidfile);
+        log_line("cannot open pidfile for write!");
+    } else
+        write_pid(pidfile);
 }
 
 void epoll_add(struct client_state_t *cs, int fd)