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[gnulib.git] / lib / chdir-safer.c

diff --git a/lib/chdir-safer.c b/lib/chdir-safer.c
index f7d657c..a6f77b0 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/chdir-safer.c
+++ b/lib/chdir-safer.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* much like chdir(2), but safer
 
-   Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2005-2006, 2008-2009 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
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include "same-inode.h"
 
+#ifndef HAVE_READLINK
+# define HAVE_READLINK 0
+#endif
+
 /* Like chdir, but fail if DIR is a symbolic link to a directory (or
    similar funny business), or if DIR is not readable.  This avoids a
    minor race condition between when a directory is created or statted
@@ -46,8 +50,10 @@ chdir_no_follow (char const *dir)
   /* If open follows symlinks, lstat DIR and fstat FD to ensure that
      they are the same file; if they are different files, set errno to
      ELOOP (the same value that open uses for symlinks with
-     O_NOFOLLOW) so the caller can report a failure.  */
-  if (! O_NOFOLLOW)
+     O_NOFOLLOW) so the caller can report a failure.
+     Skip this check if HAVE_READLINK == 0, which should be the case
+     on any system that lacks symlink support.  */
+  if (HAVE_READLINK && ! HAVE_WORKING_O_NOFOLLOW)
     {
       struct stat sb1;
       result = lstat (dir, &sb1);