From 5b527901ae625675f525dd65b82f90bcb2001afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:52:46 +0000
Subject: * dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory.  Fixes
 NIX-26.

---
 src/libmain/shared.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/libmain/shared.cc')

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))
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