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-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 6bc64ae75a42..4cc7455be6cb 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Path dirOf(const Path & path)
 {
     Path::size_type pos = path.rfind('/');
     if (pos == string::npos)
-        throw Error(format("invalid file name '%1%'") % path);
+        return ".";
     return pos == 0 ? "/" : Path(path, 0, pos);
 }