1 /* areadlink.c -- readlink wrapper to return the link name in malloc'd storage
2 Unlike xreadlink and xreadlink_with_size, don't ever call exit.
4 Copyright (C) 2001, 2003-2007, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19 /* Written by Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
20 and Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>. */
25 #include "areadlink.h"
27 #include "careadlinkat.h"
29 /* Call readlink to get the symbolic link value of FILENAME.
30 Return a pointer to that NUL-terminated string in malloc'd storage.
31 If readlink fails, return NULL and set errno.
32 If allocation fails, or if the link value is longer than SIZE_MAX :-),
33 return NULL and set errno to ENOMEM. */
36 areadlink (char const *filename
)
38 return careadlinkat (AT_FDCWD
, filename
, NULL
, 0, NULL
, careadlinkatcwd
);