Apply an anonymously contributed patch to avoid crashing when "mixmin…

…ion update-servers" is called with no .mixminion directory.

HISTORY

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-$Id: HISTORY,v 1.16 2005/12/02 21:11:36 nickm Exp $
+$Id: HISTORY,v 1.17 2006/11/16 22:47:00 nickm Exp $
+
+NEW IN VERSION 0.0.8alpha3:
+   - Create .mixminion directory even when we try to lock before accessing
+     it: This prevents "update-servers" from crashing when run without
+     a .mixminion directory.
 
 NEW IN VERSION 0.0.8alpha2:
    - License changed from LGPL to the so-called "MIT" license. This has
@@ -39,6 +44,9 @@ NEW IN VERSION 0.0.8alpha2:
    - Implement --status-fd option to dump info to would-be integrators.
    - Better errors on expired certs
 
+NEW IN VERSION 0.0.8alpha1:
+   - Make it work with Python 2.4, and more versions of zlib.
+
 NEW IN VERSION 0.0.7.1:
    - Install man pages in PREFIX/share/man, not PREFIX/man.
    - If the server crashed while changing a packet's metadata, it would often

lib/mixminion/ClientMain.py

@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ def clientUnlock():
 def configureClientLock(filename):
     """Prepare the client lock for use."""
     global _CLIENT_LOCKFILE
+    parent, fname = os.path.split(filename)
+    createPrivateDir(parent)
     _CLIENT_LOCKFILE = Lockfile(filename)
 
 class ClientDiskLock: