On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:55, Arnaud Bailly <abailly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> readlink("pb-util/protoc/Linux-x86-2.6.28/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so", "libprotobuf-lite.so.5.0.0"..., 59) = 25
The return value (25, positive) is no error. It is the length of the
symlink data.
This looks like an old Git (59 as buffer size, more recent version
should have used
56 as returned by stat earlier).
> lstat64("pb-util/protoc/Linux-x86-2.6.28/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0700, st_size=58, ...}) = 0
> write(2, "error: readlink(\"pb-ut"..., 104error: readlink("pb-util/protoc/Linux-x86-2.6.28/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so"): Invalid argument
> ) = 104
This looks like a bug in the version of Git you're using. It must be
fixed by now (at least
in 1.6.2, commit b760d3aa "Make 'index_path()' use 'strbuf_readlink()'").
I don't know why your lstat returns size for a symlink which is
different from what readlink returns,
but this is why it fails: the code that you seem to be using assumed
that must be the case.
Newer code just does not care and trusts the result of readlink.
Upgrade your Git, it is worth the time anyway.
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