link: fix test failure on Solaris 9

link("file/",name) mistakenly succeeded.

* lib/link.c (rpl_link): Don't assume link will catch bogus
trailing slash on source.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 552e8dc7bfe87d11a120da0f78bac898458f3745..8a4aebf6b5989566eb55123a89a9b0d431f844e7 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2009-09-23  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
+       link: fix test failure on Solaris 9
+       * lib/link.c (rpl_link): Don't assume link will catch bogus
+       trailing slash on source.
+
        test-symlinkat: enhance test
        * tests/test-readlink.c (main): Move guts...
        * tests/test-readlink.h (test_readlink): ...into new file.

diff --git a/lib/link.c b/lib/link.c
index 72b860015a1fbfb9145ad4409c13f85994861bdd..42d086ce88788b4844b1ea97be38b25bcbdcf62d 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/link.c
+++ b/lib/link.c
@@ -162,11 +162,13 @@ rpl_link (char const *file1, char const *file2)
       || (len2 && file2[len2 - 1] == '/'))
     {
       /* Let link() decide whether hard-linking directories is legal.
-         If stat() fails, link() will probably fail for the same
-         reason; so we only have to worry about successful stat() and
-         non-directory.  */
+         If stat() fails, then link() should fail for the same reason
+         (although on Solaris 9, link("file/","oops") mistakenly
+         succeeds); if stat() succeeds, require a directory.  */
       struct stat st;
-      if (stat (file1, &st) == 0 && !S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))
+      if (stat (file1, &st))
+        return -1;
+      if (!S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))
         {
           errno = ENOTDIR;
           return -1;