From c57db7d0076371f9564ac08535d8e02bce1e2bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:09:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] _kern_read_link() no longer null-terminates the read string.
 Fixes loading of symlinked libraries.

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@24467 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
---
 src/system/runtime_loader/runtime_loader.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/system/runtime_loader/runtime_loader.c b/src/system/runtime_loader/runtime_loader.c
index 3b8a75890e..8b09979372 100644
--- a/src/system/runtime_loader/runtime_loader.c
+++ b/src/system/runtime_loader/runtime_loader.c
@@ -139,13 +139,14 @@ try_open_executable(const char *dir, int dirLength, const char *name,
 
 	if (S_ISLNK(stat.st_mode)) {
 		char buffer[PATH_MAX];
-		size_t length = PATH_MAX;
+		size_t length = PATH_MAX - 1;
 		char *lastSlash;
 
 		// it's a link, indeed
 		status = _kern_read_link(-1, path, buffer, &length);
 		if (status < B_OK)
 			return status;
+		buffer[length] = '\0';
 
 		lastSlash = strrchr(path, '/');
 		if (buffer[0] != '/' && lastSlash != NULL) {