Treat ‘.../emacs’ like ‘emacs’ in realpath startup

* src/emacs.c (find_emacs_executable): If the executable name
contains a slash, use the same optimization for symlink resolution
that we already use when the executable name has no slash.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 0e10398dc78..3689c92c8b2 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -767,15 +767,11 @@ find_emacs_executable (char const *argv0, ptrdiff_t *candidate_size)
   eassert (argv0);
   if (strchr (argv0, DIRECTORY_SEP))
     {
-      char *real_name = realpath (argv0, NULL);
-
-      if (real_name)
-        {
-          *candidate_size = strlen (real_name) + 1;
-          return real_name;
-        }
-
-      char *val = xstrdup (argv0);
+      char *val = (readlink (argv0, linkbuf, sizeof linkbuf) < 0
+                   ? NULL
+                   : realpath (argv0, NULL));
+      if (!val)
+        val = xstrdup (argv0);
       *candidate_size = strlen (val) + 1;
       return val;
     }