util: introduce readlink_and_make_absolute()

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index 7664df59d0..2bc90da3d2 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -582,6 +582,26 @@ int readlink_malloc(const char *p, char **r) {
         }
 }
 
+int readlink_and_make_absolute(const char *p, char **r) {
+        char *target, *k;
+        int j;
+
+        assert(p);
+        assert(r);
+
+        if ((j = readlink_malloc(p, &target)) < 0)
+                return j;
+
+        k = file_in_same_dir(p, target);
+        free(target);
+
+        if (!k)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        *r = k;
+        return 0;
+}
+
 char *file_name_from_path(const char *p) {
         char *r;