Re: zsh 5.0.5-dev-2

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:34:54 +0200
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The bug reported in 32431 and 32550 is still there.
> 
> Can we perhaps just remove or comment out that one error message for a
> release?

zsh -fw
cd /
zsh: path expansion failed, using root directory

We certainly need to do something.  But if this is the only issue, can't
it be straightforwardly fixed like this?

diff --git a/Src/utils.c b/Src/utils.c
index 998e46a..75fadd5 100644
--- a/Src/utils.c
+++ b/Src/utils.c
@@ -780,6 +780,8 @@ xsymlink(char *s)
 {
     if (*s != '/')
 	return NULL;
+    if (!s[1])
+	return ztrdup("/");
     *xbuf = '\0';
     xsymlinks(s + 1);
     if (!*xbuf) {

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