From 763b3baeb072a132130137c169d8f837bedf99b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 02:17:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent a crash.

---
 irkerd | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/irkerd b/irkerd
index 598017b..91199dc 100755
--- a/irkerd
+++ b/irkerd
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ class Target():
             ircport = 6667
         self.servername = irchost
         self.channel = parsed.path.lstrip('/')
-        if self.channel[0] not in "#&+":
+        if self.channel and self.channel[0] not in "#&+":
             self.channel = "#" + self.channel
         self.port = int(ircport)
     def valid(self):
-- 
2.26.2