/* 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 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ | |
/* Specification. */ | |
/* 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; | |
} | |
/* 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) | |
{ | |
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; | |
} | |
ssize_t r = readlink (file, buf, bufsize); | |
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); | |
} | |
} | |
return r; | |
} | |