问题:
在 linux 机器上,我想读取链接的目标字符串。从文档中我发现了以下代码示例(没有错误处理):
struct stat sb;
ssize_t r;
char * linkname;
lstat("<some link>", &sb);
linkname = malloc(sb.st_size + 1);
r = readlink("/proc/self/exe", linkname, sb.st_size + 1);
问题是 sb.st_size 为我系统上的链接返回 0。
那么如何在这样的系统上为 readline 动态分配内存呢?
非常感谢!
一种可能的解决方案:
备查。使用 jilles 提出的观点:
struct stat sb;
ssize_t r = INT_MAX;
int linkSize = 0;
const int growthRate = 255;
char * linkTarget = NULL;
// get length of the pathname the link points to
if (lstat("/proc/self/exe", &sb) == -1) { // could not lstat: insufficient permissions on directory?
perror("lstat");
return;
}
// read the link target into a string
linkSize = sb.st_size + 1 - growthRate;
while (r >= linkSize) { // i.e. symlink increased in size since lstat() or non-POSIX compliant filesystem
// allocate sufficient memory to hold the link
linkSize += growthRate;
free(linkTarget);
linkTarget = malloc(linkSize);
if (linkTarget == NULL) { // insufficient memory
fprintf(stderr, "setProcessName(): insufficient memory\n");
return;
}
// read the link target into variable linkTarget
r = readlink("/proc/self/exe", linkTarget, linkSize);
if (r < 0) { // readlink failed: link was deleted?
perror("lstat");
return;
}
}
linkTarget[r] = '\0'; // readlink does not null-terminate the string