inotify_update: follow symlinks

This is probably unsafe, and doesn't protect against symlink loops, but we will eventually add this when we bring update*.c and inotify*.c closer together.

inotify_update: follow symlinks
4a2302c2 · Max Kellermann · 980201a6 · 4a2302c2
Commit 4a2302c2 authored May 30, 2010 by Max Kellermann
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--- a/src/inotify_update.c
+++ b/src/inotify_update.c
@@ -179,8 +179,7 @@ recursive_watch_subdirectories(struct watch_directory *directory,
 			continue;

 		child_path_fs = g_strconcat(path_fs, "/", ent->d_name, NULL);
-		/* XXX what about symlinks? */
-		ret = lstat(child_path_fs, &st);
+		ret = stat(child_path_fs, &st);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			g_warning("Failed to stat %s: %s",
 				  child_path_fs, g_strerror(errno));