/* Work around the bug in some systems whereby lstat succeeds when
given the zero-length file name argument. The lstat from SunOS4.1.4
has this bug.
- Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1997, 1998 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
#include <config.h>
-/* Disable the definition of lstat to rpl_lstat (from config.h) in this
- file. Otherwise, we'd get conflicting prototypes for rpl_lstat on
- most systems. */
-#undef lstat
-
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <errno.h>
extern int errno;
#endif
-/* FIXME: describe. */
+/* This is a wrapper for lstat(2).
+ If FILE is the empty string, fail with errno == ENOENT.
+ Otherwise, return the result of calling the real lstat.
+
+ This works around the bug in some systems whereby lstat succeeds when
+ given the zero-length file name argument. The lstat from SunOS4.1.4
+ has this bug. */
int
-rpl_lstat (file, sbuf)
- const char *file;
- struct stat *sbuf;
+rpl_lstat (const char *file, struct stat *sbuf)
{
if (file && *file == 0)
{
- errno = EINVAL;
+ errno = ENOENT;
return -1;
}