/* Work around a bug of lstat on some systems
- Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free
- Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1997-2006, 2008-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ 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.
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
/* written by Jim Meyering */
+/* If the user's config.h happens to include <sys/stat.h>, let it include only
+ the system's <sys/stat.h> here, so that orig_lstat doesn't recurse to
+ rpl_lstat. */
+#define __need_system_sys_stat_h
#include <config.h>
-/* 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. */
+#if !HAVE_LSTAT
+/* On systems that lack symlinks, our replacement <sys/stat.h> already
+ defined lstat as stat, so there is nothing further to do other than
+ avoid an empty file. */
+typedef int dummy;
+#else /* HAVE_LSTAT */
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <sys/stat.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
+/* Get the original definition of lstat. It might be defined as a macro. */
+# include <sys/types.h>
+# include <sys/stat.h>
+# undef __need_system_sys_stat_h
-#include "stat-macros.h"
-#include "xalloc.h"
+static int
+orig_lstat (const char *filename, struct stat *buf)
+{
+ return lstat (filename, buf);
+}
+
+/* Specification. */
+/* Write "sys/stat.h" here, not <sys/stat.h>, otherwise OSF/1 5.1 DTK cc
+ eliminates this include because of the preliminary #include <sys/stat.h>
+ above. */
+# include "sys/stat.h"
+
+# include <string.h>
+# include <errno.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.
+ "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 and Solaris 10 systems, the
+ lstat function already has the desired semantics (in treating
+ 'lstat ("symlink/", sbuf)' just like 'lstat ("symlink/.", sbuf)',
+ but on Solaris 9 and earlier 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. */
+ then use stat() to get more info on the referent of FILE.
+ If the referent is a non-directory, then set errno to ENOTDIR
+ and return -1. Otherwise, return stat's result. */
int
rpl_lstat (const char *file, struct stat *sbuf)
{
size_t len;
- char *new_file;
-
- int lstat_result = lstat (file, sbuf);
+ int lstat_result = orig_lstat (file, sbuf);
- if (lstat_result != 0 || !S_ISLNK (sbuf->st_mode))
+ if (lstat_result != 0)
return lstat_result;
+ /* This replacement file can blindly check against '/' rather than
+ using the ISSLASH macro, because all platforms with '\\' either
+ lack symlinks (mingw) or have working lstat (cygwin) and thus do
+ not compile this file. 0 len should have already been filtered
+ out above, with a failure return of ENOENT. */
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;
+ if (file[len - 1] != '/' || S_ISDIR (sbuf->st_mode))
+ return 0;
+
+ /* At this point, a trailing slash is only permitted on
+ symlink-to-dir; but it should have found information on the
+ directory, not the symlink. Call stat() to get info about the
+ link's referent. Our replacement stat guarantees valid results,
+ even if the symlink is not pointing to a directory. */
+ if (!S_ISLNK (sbuf->st_mode))
+ {
+ errno = ENOTDIR;
+ return -1;
+ }
+ return stat (file, sbuf);
}
+
+#endif /* HAVE_LSTAT */
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