From: fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp (Kazuhiro Fujieda)
Subject: Re: readlink
17 Nov 1998 19:25:33 -0800
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>>> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:26:50 -0500
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> said:

> I don't believe that this patch will handle the case of
> /a/b/c/d  where c and d are both symlinks.

It is true. By applying the following patch moreover, it may
comes to work fine.

--- path.cc-	Wed Nov 18 11:52:21 1998
+++ path.cc	Wed Nov 18 11:22:28 1998
@@ -1604,7 +1604,7 @@
 int
 readlink (const char *path, char *buf, int buflen)
 {
-  path_conv pathbuf (path, -1);
+  path_conv pathbuf (path, 0);
   if (pathbuf.error)
     {
       set_errno (pathbuf.error);

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  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
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