Fix reading symlinks

The st_size field of a symlink doesn't have to be correct, e.g. for
/dev/fd symlinks.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 3becbbabc2bf..25246a3e89a9 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Path readLink(const Path & path)
     else if (rlsize > st.st_size)
         throw Error(format("symbolic link ‘%1%’ size overflow %2% > %3%")
             % path % rlsize % st.st_size);
-    return string(buf, st.st_size);
+    return string(buf, rlsize);
 }