sd-journal: do not require path to be absolute

Seems natural to be able to specify relative directory,
e.g. with journalctl -D. And even if, this should be checked
in front-end code, not in the library.

diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 632a8134dbd57350a26e8eecc89f79ea2f0730d4..8883da278c82293050f009345a29364b950ff713 100644 (file)
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
                                 <term><option>-D</option></term>
                                 <term><option>--directory=</option></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Takes an absolute
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a
                                 directory path as argument. If
                                 specified journalctl will operate on the
                                 specified journal directory instead of

diff --git a/src/journal/sd-journal.c b/src/journal/sd-journal.c
index 7ffbaf7cbf50b0998df795d34c4c8ef8afc52a23..ef4b9b2242a422c64867eb776feadc987eee566d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/journal/sd-journal.c
+++ b/src/journal/sd-journal.c
@@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ _public_ int sd_journal_open_directory(sd_journal **ret, const char *path, int f
         if (!ret)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
-        if (!path || !path_is_absolute(path))
+        if (!path)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
         if (flags != 0)