From 275eb839d1087c6f5cec18d17c6b67f9f529d429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Julien <victor@inliniac.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:20:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mingw: disable pid checking from pidfile

kill() call is not supported in MinGW
---
 src/util-pidfile.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util-pidfile.c b/src/util-pidfile.c
index a68188b7e6..b801e41e46 100644
--- a/src/util-pidfile.c
+++ b/src/util-pidfile.c
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ int SCPidfileTestRunning(const char *pid_filename)
 {
     if (access(pid_filename, F_OK) == 0) {
         /* Check if the existing process is still alive. */
-        pid_t pidv;
         FILE *pf;
 
         pf = fopen(pid_filename, "r");
@@ -117,11 +116,15 @@ int SCPidfileTestRunning(const char *pid_filename)
             return -1;
         }
 
+#ifndef OS_WIN32
+        pid_t pidv;
         if (fscanf(pf, "%d", &pidv) == 1 && kill(pidv, 0) == 0) {
             SCLogError(SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION,
                     "pid file '%s' exists and Suricata appears to be running. "
                     "Aborting!", pid_filename);
-        } else {
+        } else
+#endif
+        {
             SCLogError(SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION,
                     "pid file '%s' exists but appears stale. "
                     "Make sure Suricata is not running and then remove %s. "