From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:27:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (purge_directory): Do not dereference symbolic links. Bug reported by Ralph Corderoy... 
X-Git-Tag: alpha_1_15_90~207
X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a5375b618ceac671af81d1d7e0cec7bfd813a76b;p=debian%2Ftar

(purge_directory): Do not dereference symbolic links. Bug reported by Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> and David Brown <davidb@davidb.org>
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diff --git a/src/incremen.c b/src/incremen.c
index ebcf8080..9902d10a 100644
--- a/src/incremen.c
+++ b/src/incremen.c
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ purge_directory (char const *directory_name)
 	  struct stat st;
 	  char *p = new_name (directory_name, cur);
 
-	  if (deref_stat (true, p, &st))
+	  if (deref_stat (false, p, &st))
 	    {
 	      stat_diag (p);
 	      WARN((0, 0, _("%s: Not purging directory: unable to stat"),