From b469a0e87242c8bf4ba9b203995b73564bbf7f38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: didfet <didfet@free.fr>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:47:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix nullpointerexception.

---
 .../info/fetter/logstashforwarder/util/RandomAccessFile.java    | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/util/RandomAccessFile.java b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/util/RandomAccessFile.java
index 6a2afd4..0bdf46a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/util/RandomAccessFile.java
+++ b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/util/RandomAccessFile.java
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ public class RandomAccessFile implements DataInput, DataOutput {
 
     // Close the underlying file object.
     file.close();
-    file = null;  // help the gc
+    //file = null;  // help the gc => commented because of problems with nullpointerexceptions when trying to read after close
   }
 
   /**