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-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index dcdb438e0..879f9fb5f 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -193,8 +193,12 @@ Path readLink(const Path & path)
if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode))
throw Error(format("‘%1%’ is not a symlink") % path);
char buf[st.st_size];
- if (readlink(path.c_str(), buf, st.st_size) != st.st_size)
+ ssize_t rlsize = readlink(path.c_str(), buf, st.st_size);
+ if (rlsize == -1)
throw SysError(format("reading symbolic link ‘%1%’") % path);
+ else if (rlsize != st.st_size)
+ throw Error(format("symbolic link ‘%1%’ size mismatch %2% != %3%")
+ % path % rlsize % st.st_size);
return string(buf, st.st_size);
}