Re: a couple of glitches in 'ln'

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> While looking at some other things I noticed a couple of problems in
> 'ln'.  First, there's a subscript error when the user invokes "ln foo
> ''": the code attempts to access the (-1)st or SIZE_MAXth byte in an
> empty string.  Second, there's an unnecessary call to lstat -- at
> least, it appears to be unnecessary to me.  Here's a patch.
>
> 2004-06-23  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * src/ln.c (do_link): Remove unnecessary call to lstat.
>       (main): Avoid subscript error when the destination is "".
>

Thank you!
I've applied that.