Work around a persistent uClibc bug, since 0.9.29 still hasn't shipped.

Poked to do this by Jason Schoon.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/mdev.c b/util-linux/mdev.c
index d0c40e2ae..73a82314c 100644
--- a/util-linux/mdev.c
+++ b/util-linux/mdev.c
@@ -197,17 +197,18 @@ static void find_dev(char *path)
                 return;
 
         while ((entry = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
+                struct stat st;
 
                 /* Skip "." and ".." (also skips hidden files, which is ok) */
 
                 if (entry->d_name[0] == '.')
                         continue;
 
-                if (entry->d_type == DT_DIR) {
-                        snprintf(path+len, PATH_MAX-len, "/%s", entry->d_name);
-                        find_dev(path);
-                        path[len] = 0;
-                }
+                // uClibc doesn't fill out entry->d_type reliably. so we use lstat().
+
+                snprintf(path+len, PATH_MAX-len, "/%s", entry->d_name);
+                if (!lstat(path, &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) find_dev(path);
+                path[len] = 0;
 
                 /* If there's a dev entry, mknod it */