952. [bug] The server required manual intervention to serve the

                        affected zones if it died between creating a journal
                        and committing the first change to it.

CHANGES

+ 952.	[bug]		The server required manual intervention to serve the
+			affected zones if it died between creating a journal
+			and committing the first change to it.
 
  951.	[bug]		CFLAGS was not passed to the linker when
 			linking some of the test programs under

lib/dns/journal.c

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  */
 
-/* $Id: journal.c,v 1.76 2001/06/04 19:33:02 tale Exp $ */
+/* $Id: journal.c,v 1.77 2001/08/06 02:10:59 marka Exp $ */
 
 #include <config.h>
 
@@ -603,18 +603,6 @@ dns_journal_open(isc_mem_t *mctx, const char *filename, isc_boolean_t write,
 	}
 	journal_header_decode(&rawheader, &j->header);
 
-	/*
-	 * When opening a journal for reading, it is not supposed to
-	 * be empty - if there are no transactions, the file should
-	 * not exist.
-	 */
-	if (! write && JOURNAL_EMPTY(&j->header)) {
-		isc_log_write(JOURNAL_COMMON_LOGARGS, ISC_LOG_ERROR,
-			      "%s: journal unexpectedly empty",
-			      j->filename);
-		FAIL(ISC_R_UNEXPECTED);
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * If there is an index, read the raw index into a dynamically
 	 * allocated buffer and then convert it into a cooked index.
@@ -1334,7 +1322,10 @@ dns_journal_rollforward(isc_mem_t *mctx, dns_db_t *db, const char *filename) {
 	}
 	if (result != ISC_R_SUCCESS)
 		return (result);
-	result = roll_forward(j, db);
+	if (JOURNAL_EMPTY(&j->header))
+		result = DNS_R_UPTODATE;
+	else
+		result = roll_forward(j, db);
 
 	dns_journal_destroy(&j);