/* Work around the bug in some systems whereby stat/lstat succeeds when
- given the zero-length file name argument. The stat/lstat from SunOS4.1.4
- has this bug.
- Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ given the zero-length file name argument. The stat/lstat from SunOS 4.1.4
+ has this bug. Also work around a deficiency in Solaris systems (up to at
+ least Solaris 9) regarding the semantics of `lstat ("symlink/", sbuf).'
+
+ Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 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
#ifndef errno
extern int errno;
#endif
-#ifdef LSTAT
+#if defined LSTAT && ! LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK
# include <string.h>
# if HAVE_STDLIB_H
void free ();
# endif
-char *xmalloc ();
+# include "xalloc.h"
/* lstat works differently on Linux and Solaris systems. POSIX (see
`pathname resolution' in the glossary) requires that programs like `ls'
return lstat_result;
}
-#endif /* LSTAT */
+#endif /* LSTAT && ! LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK */
/* This is a wrapper for stat/lstat.
If FILE is the empty string, fail with errno == ENOENT.
Otherwise, return the result of calling the real stat/lstat.
This works around the bug in some systems whereby stat/lstat succeeds when
- given the zero-length file name argument. The stat/lstat from SunOS4.1.4
+ given the zero-length file name argument. The stat/lstat from SunOS 4.1.4
has this bug. */
/* This function also provides a version of lstat with consistent semantics
#ifdef LSTAT
# define rpl_xstat rpl_lstat
-# define xstat_return_val(F, S) slash_aware_lstat (F, S)
+# if ! LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK
+# define xstat_return_val(F, S) slash_aware_lstat (F, S)
+# else
+# define xstat_return_val(F, S) lstat (F, S)
+# endif
#else
# define rpl_xstat rpl_stat
# define xstat_return_val(F, S) stat (F, S)