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-rw-r--r--src/libmain/shared.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libmain/shared.cc b/src/libmain/shared.cc
index 709b6116a67e..a832344c9c49 100644
--- a/src/libmain/shared.cc
+++ b/src/libmain/shared.cc
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ void setLogType(string lt)
 void checkStoreNotSymlink(Path path)
 {
     struct stat st;
-    while (path.size()) {
+    while (path != "/") {
         if (lstat(path.c_str(), &st))
             throw SysError(format("getting status of `%1%'") % path);
         if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode))