shared: add readlink_value

Reads the basename of the target of a symlink.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/util.c b/src/shared/util.c
index 3411cea343..f0e0c0dd3d 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.c
+++ b/src/shared/util.c
@@ -893,6 +893,28 @@ int readlink_malloc(const char *p, char **ret) {
         return readlinkat_malloc(AT_FDCWD, p, ret);
 }
 
+int readlink_value(const char *p, char **ret) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *link = NULL;
+        char *value;
+        int r;
+
+        r = readlink_malloc(p, &link);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        value = basename(link);
+        if (!value)
+                return -ENOENT;
+
+        value = strdup(value);
+        if (!value)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        *ret = value;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
 int readlink_and_make_absolute(const char *p, char **r) {
         _cleanup_free_ char *target = NULL;
         char *k;