From 8ff7954165205b2f3ade222d717ac62edb502932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: isaacs <i@izs.me>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:22:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #325. Add test and check for zero-length file contents in
 fs.readFileSync

---
 lib/fs.js                             | 4 +++-
 test/simple/test-fs-readfile-empty.js | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/fs.js b/lib/fs.js
index 0bbb14b6d4..b5d1ae0aec 100644
--- a/lib/fs.js
+++ b/lib/fs.js
@@ -112,9 +112,11 @@ fs.readFileSync = function (path, encoding) {
       i.copy(buffer,offset,0,i._bytesRead);
       offset += i._bytesRead;
     })
-  } else {
+  } else if (buffers.length) {
     //buffers has exactly 1 (possibly zero length) buffer, so this should be a shortcut
     buffer = buffers[0].slice(0, buffers[0]._bytesRead);
+  } else {
+    buffer = new Buffer(0);
   }
 
   if (encoding) buffer = buffer.toString(encoding);
diff --git a/test/simple/test-fs-readfile-empty.js b/test/simple/test-fs-readfile-empty.js
index 7b3ab1f2dd..090f668e1f 100644
--- a/test/simple/test-fs-readfile-empty.js
+++ b/test/simple/test-fs-readfile-empty.js
@@ -12,4 +12,7 @@ fs.readFile(fn, function(err, data) {
 
 fs.readFile(fn, 'utf8', function(err, data) {
   assert.strictEqual('', data);
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+});
+
+assert.ok(fs.readFileSync(fn));
+assert.strictEqual('', fs.readFileSync(fn, 'utf8'));