From 06580ebb8b81c5624a2a64f5dfa079e508a7b2b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Schmidt <alex@treefish.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 11:21:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 writeout.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/writeout.cpp b/writeout.cpp
index 19625ec..e00356a 100644
--- a/writeout.cpp
+++ b/writeout.cpp
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ writeout::writeout(const string& wdir, const string& signature,
       for (int itry=0; itry < 10 && mkdir( fulldir.c_str(), 0775) != 0; itry++)
 	sleep(1);
     else
-      while ( ! (stat(fulldir.c_str(), &sb) == 0 && S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode)) )
+      for (int itry=0; itry < 100 && (!(stat(fulldir.c_str(), &sb) == 0) && S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode)); itry++)
 	sleep(1);
 
     if(rank>0) of.open( (fulldir + "/rank" + cRank + ".tmp").c_str() );
-- 
2.39.5