This is done because it makes our life easier with unit tests. Also, a rescan on an uninitialized event list will result in a stacktrace. Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
@@ -1553,6 +1553,13 @@ rescan_periodic_events(const or_options_t *options)
{
tor_assert(options);
+ /* Avoid scanning the event list if we haven't initialized it yet. This is
+ * particularly useful for unit tests in order to avoid initializing main
+ * loop events everytime. */
+ if (!periodic_events_initialized) {
+ return;
+ }
+
int roles = get_my_roles(options);
for (int i = 0; periodic_events[i].name; ++i) {