From 82603bb2a0d8d6c39ba3ca10aedb1cae7172ac09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:28:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] avoids running abspath on None

---
 lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
index e4ff5132d81..9f955ce94cb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
@@ -576,7 +576,9 @@ class Inventory(object):
             if dname is None or dname == '' or dname == '.':
                 cwd = os.getcwd()
                 dname = cwd
-        return os.path.abspath(dname)
+        if dname:
+            dname = os.path.abspath(dname)
+        return dname
 
     def src(self):
         """ if inventory came from a file, what's the directory and file name? """