From e4ee8e568c95f54055acc5c1c519a759588df50d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Phillips <nathan.phillips@diffblue.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:46:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Handle path doesn't exist in fileutl_absolute_path

Give more meaningful message when crash because path doesn't exist
---
 src/util/file_util.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util/file_util.cpp b/src/util/file_util.cpp
index 939bc87ae89..9d64fec3d68 100644
--- a/src/util/file_util.cpp
+++ b/src/util/file_util.cpp
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Date: January 2012
 #include <cassert>
 
 #include <fstream>
+#include <cstring>
 #include <cstdlib>
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <sstream>
@@ -255,6 +256,11 @@ std::string fileutl_absolute_path(std::string const &path)
   return std::string(&(buffer[0]));
 #else
   char *absolute = realpath(path.c_str(), nullptr);
+  if(absolute==NULL)
+  {
+    std::string error=std::strerror(errno);
+    throw std::ios::failure("Could not resolve absolute path ("+error+")");
+  }
   std::string ret(absolute);
   free(absolute);
   return ret;