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+/* Stub for readlink().
+   Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   This program 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 General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+   Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+
+#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
+# include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+#if !HAVE_READLINK
+
+/* readlink() substitute for systems that don't have a readlink() function,
+   such as DJGPP 2.03 and mingw32.  */
+
+/* The official POSIX return type of readlink() is ssize_t, but since here
+   we have no declaration in a public header file, we use 'int' as return
+   type.  */
+
+int
+readlink (const char *path, char *buf, 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 (path, &statbuf) >= 0)
+    errno = EINVAL;
+  return -1;
+}
+
+#endif