/* 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. */ #include __RCSID("$NetBSD: lstat.c,v 1.2 2016/05/17 14:00:09 christos Exp $"); /* written by Jim Meyering */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #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 #include #include #include #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; }