Only rewrite state_marker file if it does not exist so we can see the age of it

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
index 2469c5c85..5e60ec753 100644
--- a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
+++ b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
@@ -778,9 +778,12 @@ ZenServer::InitializeState(const ZenServerOptions& ServerOptions)
 		WriteFile(ManifestPath, m_RootManifest.GetBuffer().AsIoBuffer());
 	}
 	{
-		std::filesystem::path		  StateMarkerPath	 = m_DataRoot / "state_marker";
-		static const std::string_view StateMarkerContent = "deleting this file will cause " ZEN_APP_NAME " to exit"sv;
-		WriteFile(StateMarkerPath, IoBuffer(IoBuffer::Wrap, StateMarkerContent.data(), StateMarkerContent.size()));
+		std::filesystem::path StateMarkerPath = m_DataRoot / "state_marker";
+		if (!std::filesystem::is_regular_file(StateMarkerPath))
+		{
+			static const std::string_view StateMarkerContent = "deleting this file will cause " ZEN_APP_NAME " to exit"sv;
+			WriteFile(StateMarkerPath, IoBuffer(IoBuffer::Wrap, StateMarkerContent.data(), StateMarkerContent.size()));
+		}
 		EnqueueStateMarkerTimer();
 	}
 }