# HG changeset patch
# User Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
# Date 1259628226 -3600
# Node ID 2e67734e1453e44de0816c3f562005e89c09c21f
# Parent  da5209afe1bcb9792b271821e6b2dfaed9cadfeb
backout experimental change from 777c1df76ef4

diff -r da5209afe1bc -r 2e67734e1453 mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Tue Dec 01 01:08:16 2009 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Tue Dec 01 01:43:46 2009 +0100
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
         initfn()
 
     if opts['pid_file']:
-        fp = open(opts['pid_file'], 'a')
+        fp = open(opts['pid_file'], 'w')
         fp.write(str(os.getpid()) + '\n')
         fp.close()