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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-11-03 23:15:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-11-03 23:15:44 +0000 |
| commit | 4b738e2f5d0dab670180ffcefe802ea664967e19 (patch) | |
| tree | 16b9d2ac64ab5df51c9f0a16d770acf5a0294ac7 | |
| parent | 90d6db1fbb0c6f091b0840f251974536da698640 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4b738e2f5d0dab670180ffcefe802ea664967e19.tar.xz | |
Sync from gnulib.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/xreadlink.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/xreadlink.c b/lib/xreadlink.c index c38e2d3aa..0f5e7d26f 100644 --- a/lib/xreadlink.c +++ b/lib/xreadlink.c @@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ xreadlink (char const *filename, size_t size) ssize_t r = readlink (filename, buffer, buf_size); size_t link_length = r; - if (r < 0) + /* On AIX 5L v5.3 and HP-UX 11i v2 04/09, readlink returns -1 + with errno == ERANGE if the buffer is too small. */ + if (r < 0 && errno != ERANGE) { int saved_errno = errno; free (buffer); |