Fix datadir handling in bitcoind

This prevents premature tries to access or create the default datadir.
This is useful when the -datadir option is specified and the default
datadir is unreachable.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/system.cpp b/src/util/system.cpp
index 520ed35504..4d8aa9ed90 100644
--- a/src/util/system.cpp
+++ b/src/util/system.cpp
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ bool ArgsManager::ReadConfigFiles(std::string& error, bool ignore_invalid_keys)
 
     // If datadir is changed in .conf file:
     ClearDatadirCache();
-    if (!fs::is_directory(GetDataDir(false))) {
+    if (!CheckDataDirOption()) {
         error = strprintf("specified data directory \"%s\" does not exist.", gArgs.GetArg("-datadir", "").c_str());
         return false;
     }