From 6e28c76907ca0012b1a4556d9a982dfffb5abaf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hodlinator <172445034+hodlinator@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:41:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] test: Harden testing of cookie file existence

---
 test/functional/rpc_users.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/test/functional/rpc_users.py b/test/functional/rpc_users.py
index 49eb64abada..45ea7ab0cc5 100755
--- a/test/functional/rpc_users.py
+++ b/test/functional/rpc_users.py
@@ -166,8 +166,15 @@ class HTTPBasicsTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
         self.stop_node(0)
 
         self.log.info('Check that failure to write cookie file will abort the node gracefully')
-        (self.nodes[0].chain_path / ".cookie.tmp").mkdir()
+        cookie_path =     self.nodes[0].chain_path / ".cookie"
+        cookie_path_tmp = self.nodes[0].chain_path / ".cookie.tmp"
+        cookie_path_tmp.mkdir()
         self.nodes[0].assert_start_raises_init_error(expected_msg=init_error)
+        cookie_path_tmp.rmdir()
+        assert not cookie_path.exists()
+        self.restart_node(0)
+        assert cookie_path.exists()
+        self.stop_node(0)
 
         self.test_rpccookieperms()