readlink() bug.

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Oct 13 08:17:00 GMT 1999


Applied.  Thanks.

-chris

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 09:23:02AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>readlink() should return ENOENT and not EINVAL when it can't
>find the target symlink.
>
>ChangeLog:
>Wed Oct 13 09:02:32 1999  Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
>	* path.cc (readlink): Return errno correctly when it can't find
>	the target symlink.
>
>--- path.cc-	Wed Oct 13 09:02:02 1999
>+++ path.cc	Wed Oct 13 09:02:32 1999
>@@ -2224,6 +2224,9 @@ readlink (const char *path, char *buf, i
>       return -1;
>     }
> 
>+  if (pathbuf.fileattr == (DWORD) -1)
>+    return -1;
>+
>   if (!pathbuf.issymlink ())
>     {
>       set_errno (EINVAL);


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