/etc/passwd and symlinks

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thursday 08 November 2007 10:52, Ralf Friedl wrote:
> Another question is what the function should do if the target of the 
> link does not exist. xmalloc_readlink will always return the target 
> name, whether it exists or not. I don't know whether this behavior would 
> be useful for xmalloc_readlink_follow or not.

I can imagine that people may want to call creat()
on a name which is potentially a dangling link.
This creates link target, if possible
(it may not be: link -> /not_existing_dir/foo).

Returning NULL for dangling links would make it impossible.
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