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Diffstat (limited to 'ports/unix/guts/link.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | ports/unix/guts/link.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/ports/unix/guts/link.c b/ports/unix/guts/link.c index 09551ac..cabcdf4 100644 --- a/ports/unix/guts/link.c +++ b/ports/unix/guts/link.c @@ -6,30 +6,14 @@ * wrap_link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath) { * int rc = -1; */ - pseudo_msg_t *msg; - PSEUDO_STATBUF buf; - - rc = real_link(oldpath, newpath); - if (rc == 0) { - /* link(2) will not overwrite; if it succeeded, we know - * that there was no previous file with this name, so we - * shove it into the database. - */ - /* On linux, link(2) links to symlinks, not to the - * files they link to. This is contraPOSIX, but - * it's apparently useful. - */ - base_lstat(oldpath, &buf); - /* a link should copy the existing database entry, if - * there is one. OP_LINK is also used to insert unseen - * files, though, so it can't be implicit. - */ - msg = pseudo_client_op(OP_STAT, 0, -1, -1, oldpath, &buf); - if (msg) { - pseudo_stat_msg(&buf, msg); - } - pseudo_client_op(OP_LINK, 0, -1, -1, newpath, &buf); - } + /* since 2.6.18 or so, linkat supports AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW, which + * provides the behavior link() has on most non-Linux systems, + * but the default is not to follow symlinks. Better yet, it + * does NOT support AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW! So define this in + * your port's portdefs.h or hope the default works for you. + */ + rc = wrap_linkat(AT_FDCWD, oldpath, AT_FDCWD, newpath, + PSEUDO_LINK_SYMLINK_BEHAVIOR); /* return rc; * } |