From 9e865ae4ff8889f73427679b50f21dfb4d35df03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergei Zimmerman <sergei@zimmerman.foo>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:13:12 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] libutil: Drop superflous .string() in pathExists and
 pathAccessible

---
 src/libutil/file-system.cc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libutil/file-system.cc b/src/libutil/file-system.cc
index 4458a3a83..f4ed33ffe 100644
--- a/src/libutil/file-system.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/file-system.cc
@@ -262,13 +262,13 @@ std::optional<PosixStat> maybeLstat(const std::filesystem::path & path)
 
 bool pathExists(const std::filesystem::path & path)
 {
-    return maybeLstat(path.string()).has_value();
+    return maybeLstat(path).has_value();
 }
 
 bool pathAccessible(const std::filesystem::path & path)
 {
     try {
-        return pathExists(path.string());
+        return pathExists(path);
     } catch (SystemError & e) {
         // swallow EPERM
         if (e.is(std::errc::operation_not_permitted))