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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/xreadlink.c')
-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); |