break out of libtrace file open loop

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libtrace/libtrace.c b/src/libtrace/libtrace.c
index f8cdd6b7b..3798cb998 100644
--- a/src/libtrace/libtrace.c
+++ b/src/libtrace/libtrace.c
@@ -77,7 +77,14 @@ void init(void) {
         }
 
         // logfile
-        ftty = orig_fopen(logfile, "a");
+        unsigned cnt = 0;
+        while ((ftty = orig_fopen(logfile, "a")) == NULL) {
+                if (++cnt > 10) { // 10 sec
+                        perror("Cannot open trace log file");
+                        exit(1);
+                }
+                sleep(1);
+        }
 
         // pid
         mypid = getpid();