From 67e711998b321838c393d80ddf33dc37cf23c4b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brent Cook <bcook@rapid7.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:04:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Do not create the payloads.json file until first usage

---
 lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb b/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb
index 00556efdfe..59d1b42d2d 100644
--- a/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb
+++ b/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ class JSONHashFile
     @hash = {}
     @last = 0
     ::FileUtils.mkdir_p(::File.dirname(path))
-    synced_update
   end
 
   def [](k)

From 3141d4e465192b3832e579b695d2ad9a783cdd02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: HD Moore <hd_moore@rapid7.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:44:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Relocate the mkdir to synced_update

---
 lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb b/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb
index 59d1b42d2d..fc282d057c 100644
--- a/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb
+++ b/lib/rex/json_hash_file.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ class JSONHashFile
     @lock = Mutex.new
     @hash = {}
     @last = 0
-    ::FileUtils.mkdir_p(::File.dirname(path))
   end
 
   def [](k)
@@ -52,6 +51,7 @@ private
   # Save the file, but prevent thread & process contention
   def synced_update(&block)
     @lock.synchronize do
+      ::FileUtils.mkdir_p(::File.dirname(path))
       ::File.open(path, ::File::RDWR|::File::CREAT) do |fd|
         fd.flock(::File::LOCK_EX)
 
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ private
     end
   end
 
-
   def parse_data(data)
     return {} if data.to_s.strip.length == 0
     begin