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r: 62712
b: refs/heads/snap-stage3
c: a243ea3
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: catamorphism

[refs]

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 refs/heads/master: 2d28d645422c1617be58c8ca7ad9a457264ca850
 refs/heads/snap-stage1: e33de59e47c5076a89eadeb38f4934f58a3618a6
-refs/heads/snap-stage3: 196851c4c92cf850d28bed749ab8c3034c04b9e3
+refs/heads/snap-stage3: a243ea39c3c155ada813c129081772ede8bce3e4
 refs/heads/try: 7b78b52e602bb3ea8174f9b2006bff3315f03ef9
 refs/tags/release-0.1: 1f5c5126e96c79d22cb7862f75304136e204f105
 refs/heads/ndm: f3868061cd7988080c30d6d5bf352a5a5fe2460b

branches/snap-stage3/src/libstd/os.rs

@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ pub fn mkdir_recursive(p: &Path, mode: c_int) -> bool {
 /// Lists the contents of a directory
 #[allow(non_implicitly_copyable_typarams)]
 pub fn list_dir(p: &Path) -> ~[~str] {
-    if p.components.is_empty() {
+    if p.components.is_empty() && !p.is_absolute() {
         // Not sure what the right behavior is here, but this
         // prevents a bounds check failure later
         return ~[];
@@ -1607,6 +1607,20 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(dirs.is_empty());
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    #[cfg(not(windows))]
+    fn list_dir_root() {
+        let dirs = os::list_dir(&Path("/"));
+        assert!(dirs.len() > 1);
+    }
+    #[test]
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    fn list_dir_root() {
+        let dirs = os::list_dir(&Path("C:\\"));
+        assert!(dirs.len() > 1);
+    }
+
+
     #[test]
     fn path_is_dir() {
         assert!((os::path_is_dir(&Path("."))));