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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/dir.cc4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index a31d28391..06aa3945b 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-05-23 DJ Delorie <dj@cygnus.com>
+
+ * dir.cc (writable_directory): handle root directories
+
Tue May 23 10:09:26 2000 Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
* uname.cc (uname): Use a "s" to denote a snapshot to avoid confusion
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/dir.cc b/winsup/cygwin/dir.cc
index d93f2e62c..f3a869cd3 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/dir.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/dir.cc
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ writable_directory (const char *file)
char *slash = strrchr (dir, '\\');
if (slash == NULL)
usedir = ".";
+ else if (slash == dir)
+ {
+ usedir = "\\";
+ }
else
{
*slash = '\0';