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errno: port to LynxOS 178 2.2.2 Problem reported by Joel Brobecker in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-10/msg00088.html>. * doc/posix-headers/errno.texi (errno.h): Document this. * lib/errno.in.h (EILSEQ, GNULIB_defined_EILSEQ) [!EILSEQ]: New macros. * lib/strerror-override.c, lib/strerror-override.h (strerror_override): Supply a string for EILSEQ. * m4/errno_h.m4 (gl_HEADER_ERRNO_H): Check for EILSEQ.
author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:29:14 -0700
parents 8250f2777afc
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/* xreadlinkat.c -- readlink wrapper to return the link name in malloc'd storage

   Copyright (C) 2001, 2003-2007, 2009-2012 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 3 of the License, 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

/* Written by Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>,
   and Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>,
   and Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>.  */

#include <config.h>

/* Specification.  */
#include "xreadlink.h"

#include <errno.h>

#include "areadlink.h"
#include "xalloc.h"

/* Call readlinkat to get the symbolic link value of FILENAME relative to FD.
   Return a pointer to that NUL-terminated string in malloc'd storage.
   If readlinkat fails, return NULL and set errno (although failure to
   change directory will issue a diagnostic and exit).
   If realloc fails, or if the link value is longer than SIZE_MAX :-),
   give a diagnostic and exit.  */

char *
xreadlinkat (int fd, char const *filename)
{
  char *result = areadlinkat (fd, filename);
  if (result == NULL && errno == ENOMEM)
    xalloc_die ();
  return result;
}