From c4f49bb377d1f51a70c587cbd8e89caade021edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: meejah <meejah@meejah.ca>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 23:28:15 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] children must be None on error

---
 src/allmydata/web/directory.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/allmydata/web/directory.py b/src/allmydata/web/directory.py
index 0b452e454..a084b28db 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/web/directory.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/web/directory.py
@@ -667,9 +667,8 @@ class DirectoryAsHTML(Element):
             children = yield self.node.list()
         except Exception as e:
             text, code = humanize_failure(Failure(e))
-            self.dirnode_children = None
+            children = None
             self.dirnode_children_error = text
-            children = {}
 
         # XXX there was a big comment here about tail-recursion etc
         # .. do we need to yield sometimes in this loop, or ..? (I'm