coreutils/lib/lstat.c
2005-09-22 06:05:39 +00:00

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/* Work around a bug of lstat on some systems
Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
/* written by Jim Meyering */
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif
/* The specification of these functions is in sys_stat.h. But we cannot
include this include file here, because on some systems, a
"#define lstat lstat64" is being used, and sys_stat.h deletes this
definition. */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "stat-macros.h"
#include "xalloc.h"
/* lstat works differently on Linux and Solaris systems. POSIX (see
`pathname resolution' in the glossary) requires that programs like `ls'
take into consideration the fact that FILE has a trailing slash when
FILE is a symbolic link. On Linux systems, the lstat function already
has the desired semantics (in treating `lstat("symlink/",sbuf)' just like
`lstat("symlink/.",sbuf)', but on Solaris it does not.
If FILE has a trailing slash and specifies a symbolic link,
then append a `.' to FILE and call lstat a second time. */
int
rpl_lstat (const char *file, struct stat *sbuf)
{
size_t len;
char *new_file;
int lstat_result = lstat (file, sbuf);
if (lstat_result != 0 || !S_ISLNK (sbuf->st_mode))
return lstat_result;
len = strlen (file);
if (len == 0 || file[len - 1] != '/')
return lstat_result;
/* FILE refers to a symbolic link and the name ends with a slash.
Append a `.' to FILE and repeat the lstat call. */
/* Add one for the `.' we'll append, and one more for the trailing NUL. */
new_file = xmalloc (len + 1 + 1);
memcpy (new_file, file, len);
new_file[len] = '.';
new_file[len + 1] = 0;
lstat_result = lstat (new_file, sbuf);
free (new_file);
return lstat_result;
}