Bug#336560: vim loops forever in readlink on startup when opening symlinked file with two parent directories of the same name

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:29:23PM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> Not to step on any toes, but I had a little time and looked into this.

No problem, is alway a pleasure when someone does the work you have to
do :-)

> The attached patch fixes the bug.  My only concern is what we should do
> if EINVAL isn't what errno is set to[1].  Is that possible in the way
> the code is called?

I would say that an "assertion failed" like exit would be appropriate in
any of the cases errno != EINVAL. Nonetheless one of them is the one
that should happen in the case described by the bugreport, isn't it?
Which one does actually happen in that case?

Cheers.

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