bitbake: Add some sanity checks to the lockfile functions

git-svn-id: https://svn.o-hand.com/repos/poky/trunk@5534 311d38ba-8fff-0310-9ca6-ca027cbcb966

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
index 0f402f6279..9641b988ab 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
@@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ def lockfile(name):
     Use the file fn as a lock file, return when the lock has been acquired.
     Returns a variable to pass to unlockfile().
     """
+    path = os.path.dirname(name)
+    if not os.path.isdir(path):
+        import bb, sys
+        bb.msg.error(bb.msg.domain.Util, "Error, lockfile path does not exist!: %s" % path)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
     while True:
         # If we leave the lockfiles lying around there is no problem
         # but we should clean up after ourselves. This gives potential