Read symbolic links using readlink(2) - code from Peter Collinson,

Univ of Kent, Canterbury, UK. <ukc.ac.uk!pc>

diff --git a/src/fsmagic.c b/src/fsmagic.c
index 6ca7d9ce3154b6c582f63e5ac869b2f12c98a6d1..88afc4a66db14e58880bce269ff1327def9bfcb7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/fsmagic.c
+++ b/src/fsmagic.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 #ifndef        lint
 static char *moduleid = 
-       "@(#)$Header: /home/glen/git/file/cvs/file/src/fsmagic.c,v 1.7 1987/09/23 21:14:28 ian Exp $";
+       "@(#)$Header: /home/glen/git/file/cvs/file/src/fsmagic.c,v 1.8 1988/02/28 10:50:50 ian Exp $";
 #endif /* lint */
 
 extern char *progname;
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ char *fn;
 #ifdef S_IFLNK
        case S_IFLNK:
                ckfputs("symbolic link", stdout);
+               readsymbolic(fn);
                return 1;
 #endif
 #ifdef S_IFSOCK
@@ -117,3 +118,17 @@ char *fn;
        return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef S_IFLNK
+readsymbolic(fn)
+char *fn;
+{      char buf[BUFSIZ+4];
+       register int cc;
+
+       strcpy(buf, " to ");
+       cc = readlink(fn, &buf[4], BUFSIZ-1);
+       if (cc <= 0)
+               return;
+       buf[cc+4] = '\0';
+       ckfputs(buf, stdout);
+}
+#endif