From 06880d7ed8b8ef8658eb965e6614136c67988970 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Benno=20F=C3=BCnfst=C3=BCck?= <benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 10:18:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nix ls: support '/' for the root directory

---
 src/nix/ls.cc | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/nix/ls.cc b/src/nix/ls.cc
index 3476dfb05..417b7b421 100644
--- a/src/nix/ls.cc
+++ b/src/nix/ls.cc
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ struct MixLs : virtual Args
                 showFile(curPath, relPath);
         };
 
+        if (path == "/") {
+            path = "";
+        }
+
         auto st = accessor->stat(path);
         if (st.type == FSAccessor::Type::tMissing)
             throw Error(format("path ‘%1%’ does not exist") % path);