+ dbg("chown(%s, %u, %u) failed with error '%s'",
+ filename, uid, gid, strerror(errno));
+ }
+
+ /* create symlink if requested */
+ if (*dev->symlink) {
+ symlinks = dev->symlink;
+ while (1) {
+ linkname = strsep(&symlinks, " ");
+ if (linkname == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ strncpy(filename, udev_root, sizeof(filename));
+ strncat(filename, linkname, sizeof(filename));
+ dbg("symlink '%s' to node '%s' requested", filename, dev->name);
+ if (strrchr(linkname, '/'))
+ create_path(filename);
+
+ /* optimize relative link */
+ linktarget[0] = '\0';
+ i = 0;
+ tail = 0;
+ while ((dev->name[i] == linkname[i]) && dev->name[i]) {
+ if (dev->name[i] == '/')
+ tail = i+1;
+ i++;
+ }
+ while (linkname[i]) {
+ if (linkname[i] == '/')
+ strcat(linktarget, "../");
+ i++;
+ }
+
+ if (*linktarget == '\0')
+ strcpy(linktarget, "./");
+ strcat(linktarget, &dev->name[tail]);
+
+ dbg("symlink(%s, %s)", linktarget, filename);
+ retval = symlink(linktarget, filename);
+ if (retval)
+ dbg("symlink(%s, %s) failed with error '%s'",
+ linktarget, filename, strerror(errno));
+ }