From 713d5071d54e11121ea0f1e53581c7ccb904bdcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:13:04 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] state: don't consider missing state file to be a fatal error

---
 libifupdown/state.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libifupdown/state.c b/libifupdown/state.c
index 89ad105..74d0e0c 100644
--- a/libifupdown/state.c
+++ b/libifupdown/state.c
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ lif_state_read_path(struct lif_dict *state, const char *path)
 	FILE *fd = fopen(path, "r");
 	bool ret;
 
+	/* if file cannot be opened, assume an empty state */
 	if (fd == NULL)
-		return false;
+		return true;
 
 	ret = lif_state_read(state, fd);
 	fclose(fd);