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-rw-r--r--Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx b/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx
index 7c81eb0..94b7591 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx
+++ b/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx
@@ -3975,12 +3975,18 @@ bool SystemTools::SetPermissions(const char* file, mode_t mode)
kwsys_stl::string SystemTools::GetParentDirectory(const char* fileOrDir)
{
- if ( !fileOrDir || !*fileOrDir )
+ if ( !fileOrDir || !*fileOrDir || !SystemTools::FileExists(fileOrDir))
{
return "";
}
kwsys_stl::string res = fileOrDir;
SystemTools::ConvertToUnixSlashes(res);
+
+ // If the root "/" directory is passed in, return empty string
+ if(strcmp(res.c_str(), "/") ==0 )
+ {
+ return "";
+ }
kwsys_stl::string::size_type cc = res.size()-1;
if ( res[cc] == '/' )
{