system-update-generator: accept a dangling symlink

The offline update mechanism is explicitly designed to work with a
separate /var. systemd-update-generator is supposed to run early,
before filesystems are mounted, so it cannot check if the
/system-update symlink actually points to anything.

The update is run *after* filesystems are mounted, so it should be
able to access the target of the symlink without trouble.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178978

diff --git a/src/system-update-generator/system-update-generator.c b/src/system-update-generator/system-update-generator.c
index 464ee22b208b66ff9e20e305163aad4e9f089a9a..455a84109bdb3c4099a7ac61f1889709d0da2bb6 100644 (file)
--- a/src/system-update-generator/system-update-generator.c
+++ b/src/system-update-generator/system-update-generator.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static const char *arg_dest = "/tmp";
 static int generate_symlink(void) {
         const char *p = NULL;
 
-        if (access("/system-update", F_OK) < 0) {
+        if (laccess("/system-update", F_OK) < 0) {
                 if (errno == ENOENT)
                         return 0;