path-util: unify how we process paths specified on the command line

Let's introduce a common function that makes relative paths absolute and
warns about any errors while doing so.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/sysusers/sysusers.c b/src/sysusers/sysusers.c
index e594053ee8..238b1086b2 100644
--- a/src/sysusers/sysusers.c
+++ b/src/sysusers/sysusers.c
@@ -1779,12 +1779,9 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                         return version();
 
                 case ARG_ROOT:
-                        arg_root = mfree(arg_root);
-                        r = path_make_absolute_cwd(optarg, &arg_root);
+                        r = parse_path_argument_and_warn(optarg, true, &arg_root);
                         if (r < 0)
-                                return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to make root path absolute: %m");
-
-                        path_kill_slashes(arg_root);
+                                return r;
                         break;
 
                 case '?':