From 69ae17e1a7868c03ea50ac09b3ae2fae1dd457e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:24:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix check for initial '-' in argv_to_abspath.

Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
---
 src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py b/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
index 4eff033a..efd1e218 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
@@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ def argv_to_unicode(s):
     except UnicodeDecodeError:
         raise usage.UsageError("Argument %s cannot be decoded as %s." %
                                (quote_output(s), io_encoding))
-    if local_dir.startswith('-'):
-        raise usage.UsageError("Argument %s cannot start with a -." % (quote_output(s),))
 
 def argv_to_abspath(s, **kwargs):
     """
-- 
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