From 333a36ec8f7df3bd71ad18f5be497d1212b0c337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 01:58:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Canonicalize the channel name early.  Avoids a very weird
 bug.

---
 irkerd | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/irkerd b/irkerd
index d0bc8ff..598017b 100755
--- a/irkerd
+++ b/irkerd
@@ -204,8 +204,6 @@ class Connection:
                 (channel, message) = self.queue.get()
                 if channel not in self.channels_joined:
                     self.channels_joined.append(channel)
-                    if channel[0] not in "#&+":
-                        channel = "#" + channel
                     self.connection.join(channel)
                 for segment in message.split("\n"):
                     self.connection.privmsg(channel, segment)
@@ -239,6 +237,8 @@ class Target():
             ircport = 6667
         self.servername = irchost
         self.channel = parsed.path.lstrip('/')
+        if self.channel[0] not in "#&+":
+            self.channel = "#" + self.channel
         self.port = int(ircport)
     def valid(self):
         "Both components must be present for a valid target."
-- 
2.26.2