xref: /netbsd-src/external/gpl2/xcvs/dist/lib/readlink.c (revision 5a6c14c844c4c665da5632061aebde7bb2cb5766)
1 /* Stub for readlink().
2    Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 
4    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7    any later version.
8 
9    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
12    GNU General Public License for more details.
13 
14    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16    Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
17 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
18 __RCSID("$NetBSD: readlink.c,v 1.2 2016/05/17 14:00:09 christos Exp $");
19 
20 
21 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
22 # include <config.h>
23 #endif
24 
25 #include <errno.h>
26 #include <sys/types.h>
27 #include <sys/stat.h>
28 #include <stddef.h>
29 
30 #if !HAVE_READLINK
31 
32 /* readlink() substitute for systems that don't have a readlink() function,
33    such as DJGPP 2.03 and mingw32.  */
34 
35 /* The official POSIX return type of readlink() is ssize_t, but since here
36    we have no declaration in a public header file, we use 'int' as return
37    type.  */
38 
39 int
readlink(const char * path,char * buf,size_t bufsize)40 readlink (const char *path, char *buf, size_t bufsize)
41 {
42   struct stat statbuf;
43 
44   /* In general we should use lstat() here, not stat().  But on platforms
45      without symbolic links lstat() - if it exists - would be equivalent to
46      stat(), therefore we can use stat().  This saves us a configure check.  */
47   if (stat (path, &statbuf) >= 0)
48     errno = EINVAL;
49   return -1;
50 }
51 
52 #endif
53