Revert "Revert "allow /dev/console to be a symlink""

Was reverted to apply some other patches correctly
This reverts commit 12dd363fc5bd1d89bbf53f552c06e80ca0d39432.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/tty.sh b/src/tty.sh
index 3374753..814f3d9 100644
--- a/src/tty.sh
+++ b/src/tty.sh
@@ -1506,11 +1506,21 @@ CheckTtyname (tty)
 char *tty;
 {
   struct stat st;
+  char * real;
+  int rc;
 
-  if (lstat(tty, &st) || !S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) ||
-     (st.st_nlink > 1 && strncmp(tty, "/dev/", 5)))
+  real = realpath(tty, NULL);
+  if (!real)
     return -1;
-  return 0;
+
+  if (lstat(real, &st) || !S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) ||
+    (st.st_nlink > 1 && strncmp(real, "/dev/", 5)))
+    rc = -1;
+  else
+    rc = 0;
+
+  free(real);
+  return rc;
 }
 
 /*