From: Fred T. Hamster <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:57:16 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: getting some screwy messages about chdir from perl.
X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~943
X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdc8710b5258c1f81ba49f697f04ed9c4939f4cd;p=feisty_meow.git

getting some screwy messages about chdir from perl.
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diff --git a/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl b/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
index 6d157163..c6b94910 100644
--- a/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
+++ b/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ sub chdir_to_top {
     # magic to get the paths to work right.
     local($drive) = substr($directory, 0, 4);  # get just drive letter biz.
 #print "going to change to $drive\n";
-    chdir($drive);
+    if (length($drive) > 0) {
+      chdir($drive);
+    }
 #print "cwd now=" . cwd() . "\n";
     $directory = substr($directory, 4);  # rip off absolutist path.
 #print "using dir now as $directory\n";