Trailing '/' in paths causes lstat to dereference symlinks to directories which causes it to break even though the symlink is a valid target.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <[email protected]> --- src/pacman/query.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/pacman/query.c b/src/pacman/query.c index 176f91c..d145707 100644 --- a/src/pacman/query.c +++ b/src/pacman/query.c @@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ static int query_fileowner(alpm_list_t *targets) filename = strdup(t->data); + /* trailing '/' causes lstat to dereference directory symlinks */ + size_t len = strlen(filename) - 1; + while(len > 0 && filename[len] == '/'){ + filename[len--] = '\0'; + } + if(lstat(filename, &buf) == -1) { /* if it is not a path but a program name, then check in PATH */ if(strchr(filename, '/') == NULL) { -- 1.7.11.3
