From e52b4cddebcbcfaebb047d0bd4a2af48ba43e304 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alon Zakai <azakai@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:40:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 682166 - Allow absolute pathnames in js console read().
 r=cdleary

---
 js/src/shell/js.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/js/src/shell/js.cpp b/js/src/shell/js.cpp
index f038a7c3d580..1aafc0dd4144 100644
--- a/js/src/shell/js.cpp
+++ b/js/src/shell/js.cpp
@@ -3808,6 +3808,11 @@ MakeAbsolutePathname(JSContext *cx, const char *from, const char *leaf)
     char *dir;
     const char *slash = NULL, *cp;
 
+    if (*leaf == '/') {
+        /* We were given an absolute pathname. */
+        return JS_strdup(cx, leaf);
+    }
+
     cp = from;
     while (*cp) {
         if (*cp == '/') {