[patch] Handle unreadable links correctly in read_a_link()

stow-read-a-link-error-handling.patch (text/plain), 433 bytes, created by kfm on 2015-02-11 03:11:05 UTC

--- Stow.pm.orig	2015-02-11 04:42:40.773534584 +0200
+++ Stow.pm	2015-02-11 04:47:27.671244885 +0200
@@ -1732,8 +1732,9 @@
     }
     elsif (-l $path) {
         debug(4, "  read_a_link($path): real link");
-        return readlink $path
+        my $source = readlink $path
             or error("Could not read link: $path");
+        return $source;
     }
     internal_error("read_a_link() passed a non link path: $path\n");
 }