From: Nicholas Nethercote <n.nethercote@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 14:49:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make the startup static and suid checks follow symlinks.
X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_2_1_0~88
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91686661b20c151faa2cedc680eb7e6f3fd5bcfd;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git

Make the startup static and suid checks follow symlinks.

Also a couple of minor formatting changes.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@1979
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diff --git a/coregrind/valgrind.in b/coregrind/valgrind.in
index bda054b11e..cef8371471 100755
--- a/coregrind/valgrind.in
+++ b/coregrind/valgrind.in
@@ -117,22 +117,22 @@ if [ $# != 0 ] ; then
    # Ensure the program exists.  Ignore any error messages from 'which'.
    which_prog=`which $1 2> /dev/null`
    if [ z$which_prog = z ] ; then
-       echo "'$1' not found in \$PATH, aborting."
-       exit
+      echo "'$1' not found in \$PATH, aborting."
+      exit
    fi
 
-   # Ensure the program isn't statically linked.
    if [ $# != 0 ] ; then
-      case `file "$which_prog"` in
+      case `file -L "$which_prog"` in       # must follow symlinks, hence -L
+      # Ensure the program isn't statically linked.
       *"statically linked"*)
         echo "\`$which_prog' is statically linked"
         echo "Valgrind only works on dynamically linked executables;  your"
         echo "program must rely on at least one shared object for Valgrind"
         echo "to work with it.  Read FAQ #5 for more information."
         exit 1 ;;
-     # ensure that there are no setuid or gid flags
+      # Ensure that there are no setuid or gid flags
       *:\ set?id\ ELF*)
-     echo "\`$which_prog' is suid/sgid."
+        echo "\`$which_prog' is suid/sgid."
         echo "Valgrind can't handle these executables, as it"
         echo "requires the LD_PRELOAD feature in order to work."
         echo ""