/* Read the contents of a symbolic link. Copyright (C) 2003-2007, 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file 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 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file 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 . */ #include /* Specification. */ #include #include #include #include #if !HAVE_READLINK /* readlink() substitute for systems that don't have a readlink() function, such as DJGPP 2.03 and mingw32. */ ssize_t readlink (char const *file, _GL_UNUSED char *buf, _GL_UNUSED size_t bufsize) { struct stat statbuf; /* In general we should use lstat() here, not stat(). But on platforms without symbolic links, lstat() - if it exists - would be equivalent to stat(), therefore we can use stat(). This saves us a configure check. */ if (stat (file, &statbuf) >= 0) errno = EINVAL; return -1; } #else /* HAVE_READLINK */ # undef readlink /* readlink() wrapper that uses correct types, for systems like cygwin 1.5.x where readlink returns int, and which rejects trailing slash, for Solaris 9. */ ssize_t rpl_readlink (char const *file, char *buf, size_t bufsize) { # if READLINK_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG size_t file_len = strlen (file); if (file_len && file[file_len - 1] == '/') { /* Even if FILE without the slash is a symlink to a directory, both lstat() and stat() must resolve the trailing slash to the directory rather than the symlink. We can therefore safely use stat() to distinguish between EINVAL and ENOTDIR/ENOENT, avoiding extra overhead of rpl_lstat(). */ struct stat st; if (stat (file, &st) == 0 || errno == EOVERFLOW) errno = EINVAL; return -1; } # endif /* READLINK_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG */ ssize_t r = readlink (file, buf, bufsize); # if READLINK_TRUNCATE_BUG if (r < 0 && errno == ERANGE) { /* Try again with a bigger buffer. This is just for test cases; real code invariably discards short reads. */ char stackbuf[4032]; r = readlink (file, stackbuf, sizeof stackbuf); if (r < 0) { if (errno == ERANGE) { /* Clear the buffer, which is good enough for real code. Thankfully, no test cases try short reads of enormous symlinks and what would be the point anyway? */ r = bufsize; memset (buf, 0, r); } } else { if (bufsize < r) r = bufsize; memcpy (buf, stackbuf, r); } } # endif return r; } #endif /* HAVE_READLINK */