From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:14:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (do_link): find_backup_file_name no longer returns NULL, so don't
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1073
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9dfcfc47dc388089f5e38d6fb7f45ef231ee0ed9;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(do_link): find_backup_file_name no longer returns NULL, so don't
bother to check for this.
---

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index 97a962af00..72d50fd62e 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -255,11 +255,8 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest, bool dest_is_dir)
 
       if (backup_type != none)
 	{
-	  size_t buf_len;
 	  char *tmp_backup = find_backup_file_name (dest, backup_type);
-	  if (tmp_backup == NULL)
-	    xalloc_die ();
-	  buf_len = strlen (tmp_backup) + 1;
+	  size_t buf_len = strlen (tmp_backup) + 1;
 	  dest_backup = alloca (buf_len);
 	  memcpy (dest_backup, tmp_backup, buf_len);
 	  free (tmp_backup);