/* Work around a bug of lstat on some systems Copyright (C) 1997-2006, 2008-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* written by Jim Meyering */ /* If the user's config.h happens to include , let it include only the system's here, so that orig_lstat doesn't recurse to rpl_lstat. */ #define __need_system_sys_stat_h #include #if !HAVE_LSTAT /* On systems that lack symlinks, our replacement already defined lstat as stat, so there is nothing further to do other than avoid an empty file. */ typedef int dummy; #else /* HAVE_LSTAT */ /* Get the original definition of lstat. It might be defined as a macro. */ # include # include # undef __need_system_sys_stat_h static int orig_lstat (const char *filename, struct stat *buf) { return lstat (filename, buf); } /* Specification. */ /* Write "sys/stat.h" here, not , otherwise OSF/1 5.1 DTK cc eliminates this include because of the preliminary #include above. */ # include "sys/stat.h" # include # include /* 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 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 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; int lstat_result = orig_lstat (file, sbuf); 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 (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 */