From 368257a7332ae891d639f31ae8f891064c5496ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: benoitc <bchesneau@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:12:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix issue #24.

---
 gunicorn/arbiter.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gunicorn/arbiter.py b/gunicorn/arbiter.py
index e6690983..4d6d2f1a 100644
--- a/gunicorn/arbiter.py
+++ b/gunicorn/arbiter.py
@@ -352,9 +352,13 @@ class Arbiter(object):
         Kill unused/idle workers
         """
         for (pid, worker) in list(self.WORKERS.items()):
-            diff = time.time() - os.fstat(worker.tmp.fileno()).st_ctime
-            if diff <= self.timeout:
+            try:
+                diff = time.time() - os.fstat(worker.tmp.fileno()).st_ctime
+                if diff <= self.timeout:
+                    continue
+            except ValueError:
                 continue
+
             self.log.error("Worker timed out: %s (pid:%s)" % (worker, pid))
             self.kill_worker(pid, signal.SIGKILL)