From b5c9d5a59b32b25ff1d0bc9448a92b0bf0656848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael@ansibleworks.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:48:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Inventory directory should always be absolute.  Fixes #4535.

---
 lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
index 5a5bc30ecf8..f202a14192b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
@@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ class Inventory(object):
         dname = os.path.dirname(self.host_list)
         if dname is None or dname == '' or dname == '.':
             cwd = os.getcwd()
-            return cwd 
-        return dname
+            return os.path.abspath(cwd) 
+        return os.path.abspath(dname)
 
     def src(self):
         """ if inventory came from a file, what's the directory and file name? """