From 3b29590b705f31abe594fc1496f0a4be7e1f823c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 07:26:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] starter: Ignore an existing PID file if it references ourself

---
 src/starter/starter.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/starter/starter.c b/src/starter/starter.c
index 51a42a504..6c0739340 100644
--- a/src/starter/starter.c
+++ b/src/starter/starter.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static bool check_pid(char *pid_file)
 				pid = atoi(buf);
 			}
 			fclose(pidfile);
-			if (pid && kill(pid, 0) == 0)
+			if (pid && pid != getpid() && kill(pid, 0) == 0)
 			{	/* such a process is running */
 				return TRUE;
 			}