Initial commit.

TODO: Copyright information.
Including source code and a patch to add files generated by GNU Autoconf
is not very pretty...  Running 'make dist' in the SVN trunk to generate
a source archive might be better.

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+/*
+ *  xreadlink.c - safe implementation of readlink.
+ *  Returns a NULL on failure...
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+/*
+ * NOTE: This function returns a malloced char* that you will have to free
+ * yourself. You have been warned.
+ */
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+extern char *xreadlink(const char *path)
+{
+	static const int GROWBY = 80; /* how large we will grow strings by */
+
+	char *buf = NULL;
+	int bufsize = 0, readsize = 0;
+
+	do {
+		buf = xrealloc(buf, bufsize += GROWBY);
+		readsize = readlink(path, buf, bufsize); /* 1st try */
+		if (readsize == -1) {
+		    perror_msg("%s", path);
+		    return NULL;
+		}
+	}
+	while (bufsize < readsize + 1);
+
+	buf[readsize] = '\0';
+
+	return buf;
+}
+