From b0185173147c3eb629cc6b996459cf6ce2d608fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:51:14 +0000
Subject: * Do not try to remove write permission from symlinks, since chmod() 
  follows symlinks.  (Note that the permissions on symlinks are   ignored
 anyway.)

---
 src/util.cc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/util.cc')

diff --git a/src/util.cc b/src/util.cc
index c7ae711bbac7..f2cdb1d72345 100644
--- a/src/util.cc
+++ b/src/util.cc
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ void makePathReadOnly(const string & path)
     if (lstat(path.c_str(), &st))
 	throw SysError(format("getting attributes of path `%1%'") % path);
 
-    if (st.st_mode & S_IWUSR) {
+    if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) && (st.st_mode & S_IWUSR)) {
 	if (chmod(path.c_str(), st.st_mode & ~S_IWUSR) == -1)
-	    throw SysError(format("making `%1%' read-only"));
+	    throw SysError(format("making `%1%' read-only") % path);
     }
 
     if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
-- 
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