this avoids failure if the file is not readable and avoids odd behavior for device nodes, etc. on old kernels that lack O_PATH, the old behavior (O_RDONLY) will naturally happen as the fallback.
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ char *realpath(const char *restrict filename, char *restrict resolved)
return 0;
}
- fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC);
+ fd = open(filename, O_PATH|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC);
if (fd < 0) return 0;
__procfdname(buf, fd);