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authorTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2016-02-06 22:49:35 -0500
committerTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2016-02-06 22:49:35 -0500
commitb46da967104df09edcad706e5e8ef31326a113dd (patch)
tree2f5e10dff126bf590f552a5bd73410f1db8844cf /bftw.c
parent0f91c5861cacaeb17729b7727d07260273345393 (diff)
downloadbfs-b46da967104df09edcad706e5e8ef31326a113dd.tar.xz
bftw: Don't give up when following a broken symlink.
Diffstat (limited to 'bftw.c')
-rw-r--r--bftw.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bftw.c b/bftw.c
index a49cbed..e445432 100644
--- a/bftw.c
+++ b/bftw.c
@@ -631,7 +631,15 @@ static void bftw_init_buffers(struct bftw_state *state, const struct dirent *de)
|| ftwbuf->typeflag == BFTW_UNKNOWN
|| (ftwbuf->typeflag == BFTW_LNK && follow)) {
int flags = follow ? 0 : AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW;
- if (ftwbuf_stat(ftwbuf, &state->statbuf, flags) != 0) {
+
+ int ret = ftwbuf_stat(ftwbuf, &state->statbuf, flags);
+ if (ret != 0 && follow && errno == ENOENT) {
+ // Could be a broken symlink, retry without following
+ flags = AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW;
+ ret = ftwbuf_stat(ftwbuf, &state->statbuf, flags);
+ }
+
+ if (ret != 0) {
state->error = errno;
ftwbuf_set_error(ftwbuf, state->error);
}