make realpath use O_PATH when opening the file

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.
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Rich Felker 2013-08-31 15:44:58 -04:00
parent 9ff8ed463c
commit 27b4923ba0

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@ -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);