When ini_config_augment() is asked to load snippets from an empty directory, it returns with result_cfg set to NULL. It has this behavior even when base_cfg is not NULL.

The documentation for ini_config_augment(), however, states that result_cfg will be set to the result of merging base_cfg with the snippets found in the specified directory. The behavior observed seems at odds with this description: it seems to merge something with nothing, and yield nothing (where did the something go?).

I believe this is caused by an early-exit from ini_aug_apply() (currently lines 682-688 of ini_augment.c) which should occur after the ini_config_copy() has taken place.