Passing an empty string to pacman -Qo results in: error: No package owns <first directory in $PATH> Treat an empty string being passed the same as recieving a NULL value and exit searching for an owner. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> --- Running 'pacman -Qo ""' will now just exit pacman. I'm not sure if we need an error/warning message for this case. src/pacman/query.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/query.c b/src/pacman/query.c index a8417570..119764bc 100644 --- a/src/pacman/query.c +++ b/src/pacman/query.c @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ static int query_fileowner(alpm_list_t *targets) size_t len, is_dir; unsigned int found = 0; - if((filename = strdup(t->data)) == NULL) { + filename = strdup(t->data); + if(filename == NULL || strcmp(filename, "") == 0) { goto targcleanup; } -- 2.12.2