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file_exists(): dangling symlinks do exist

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This function is used to see if a path given by the user does exist
on the filesystem.  A symbolic link that does not point anywhere does
exist but running stat() on it would yield an error, and it incorrectly
said it does not exist.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2007-11-18 01:58:16 -08:00
parent 637efc3456
commit a50f9fc5fe
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@ -690,11 +690,10 @@ int read_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *path, const char *base, i
return dir->nr;
}
int
file_exists(const char *f)
int file_exists(const char *f)
{
struct stat sb;
return stat(f, &sb) == 0;
struct stat sb;
return lstat(f, &sb) == 0;
}
/*