From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:36:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: copydir() and rmtree() need to use lstat, not stat, to behave as expected
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copydir() and rmtree() need to use lstat, not stat, to behave as expected
with symlinks.  Noted while trying to use rmtree in new C-code pg_regress.
---

diff --git a/src/port/copydir.c b/src/port/copydir.c
index 718d99251b7..ef441e5ad3f 100644
--- a/src/port/copydir.c
+++ b/src/port/copydir.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  *	as a service.
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/copydir.c,v 1.17 2006/03/05 15:59:10 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/copydir.c,v 1.18 2006/07/18 22:36:46 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ copydir(char *fromdir, char *todir, bool recurse)
 		snprintf(fromfile, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", fromdir, xlde->d_name);
 		snprintf(tofile, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", todir, xlde->d_name);
 
-		if (stat(fromfile, &fst) < 0)
+		if (lstat(fromfile, &fst) < 0)
 			ereport(ERROR,
 					(errcode_for_file_access(),
 					 errmsg("could not stat file \"%s\": %m", fromfile)));
diff --git a/src/port/dirmod.c b/src/port/dirmod.c
index d806a9ba8d7..e58384a749c 100644
--- a/src/port/dirmod.c
+++ b/src/port/dirmod.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  *	Win32 (NT, Win2k, XP).	replace() doesn't work on Win95/98/Me.
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/dirmod.c,v 1.42 2006/03/05 15:59:10 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/dirmod.c,v 1.43 2006/07/18 22:36:46 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir)
 	{
 		snprintf(filepath, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", path, *filename);
 
-		if (stat(filepath, &statbuf) != 0)
+		if (lstat(filepath, &statbuf) != 0)
 			goto report_and_fail;
 
 		if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))