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Diffstat (limited to 'unix/tclUnixFile.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | unix/tclUnixFile.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/unix/tclUnixFile.c b/unix/tclUnixFile.c index f268ad5..66c31b9 100644 --- a/unix/tclUnixFile.c +++ b/unix/tclUnixFile.c @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ * See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution * of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. * - * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclUnixFile.c,v 1.34 2003/11/03 12:48:30 vincentdarley Exp $ + * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclUnixFile.c,v 1.35 2003/12/12 17:09:34 vincentdarley Exp $ */ #include "tclInt.h" @@ -735,9 +735,30 @@ TclpObjLink(pathPtr, toPtr, linkAction) * create these. */ if (linkAction & TCL_CREATE_SYMBOLIC_LINK) { - if (symlink(target, src) != 0) return NULL; + int targetLen; + Tcl_DString ds; + Tcl_Obj *transPtr; + /* + * Now we don't want to link to the absolute, normalized path. + * Relative links are quite acceptable, as are links to '~user', + * for example. + */ + transPtr = Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath(NULL, toPtr); + if (transPtr == NULL) { + return NULL; + } + target = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(transPtr, &targetLen); + target = Tcl_UtfToExternalDString(NULL, target, targetLen, &ds); + Tcl_DecrRefCount(transPtr); + + if (symlink(target, src) != 0) { + toPtr = NULL; + } + Tcl_DStringFree(&ds); } else if (linkAction & TCL_CREATE_HARD_LINK) { - if (link(target, src) != 0) return NULL; + if (link(target, src) != 0) { + return NULL; + } } else { errno = ENODEV; return NULL; |