From 2685cd3cc5c0dc7935f34b50f5b9f76134e0fe0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Batts <vbatts@hashbangbash.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:55:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] xattr: fix the failure on empty list

Signed-off-by: Vincent Batts <vbatts@hashbangbash.com>
---
 xattr/xattr.go | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xattr/xattr.go b/xattr/xattr.go
index 3e2b53b..d6ad9ce 100644
--- a/xattr/xattr.go
+++ b/xattr/xattr.go
@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@ func List(path string) ([]string, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	return strings.Split(strings.TrimRight(string(dest[:i]), nilByte), nilByte), nil
+
+	// If the returned list is empty, return nil instead of []string{""}
+	str := string(dest[:i])
+	if str == "" {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	return strings.Split(strings.TrimRight(str, nilByte), nilByte), nil
 }
 
 const nilByte = "\x00"