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Diffstat (limited to 'archival')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/tar.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c index 1b783f0..836d127 100644 --- a/archival/tar.c +++ b/archival/tar.c @@ -824,12 +824,15 @@ writeTarHeader(struct TarBallInfo *tbInfo, const char *fileName, struct stat *st /* WARNING/NOTICE: I break Hard Links */ if (S_ISLNK(statbuf->st_mode)) { + int link_size=0; char buffer[BUFSIZ]; header.typeflag = SYMTYPE; - if ( readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1) < 0) { + link_size = readlink(fileName, buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1); + if ( link_size < 0) { errorMsg("Error reading symlink '%s': %s\n", header.name, strerror(errno)); return ( FALSE); } + buffer[link_size] = '\0'; strncpy(header.linkname, buffer, sizeof(header.linkname)); } else if (S_ISDIR(statbuf->st_mode)) { header.typeflag = DIRTYPE; |