Add a 'target' field for symlinkattributes.

It returns the resolved path of the symlink.

Original version by Hisham <hisham@gobolinux.org>, modified to
use a different strategy for sizing the readlink() buffer.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test.lua b/tests/test.lua
index 2842bc0..2331eec 100644
--- a/tests/test.lua
+++ b/tests/test.lua
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ io.flush()
 if lfs.link (tmpfile, "_a_link_for_test_", true) then
   assert (lfs.attributes"_a_link_for_test_".mode == "file")
   assert (lfs.symlinkattributes"_a_link_for_test_".mode == "link")
+  assert (lfs.symlinkattributes"_a_link_for_test_".target == tmpfile)
+  assert (lfs.symlinkattributes("_a_link_for_test_", "target") == tmpfile)
   assert (lfs.link (tmpfile, "_a_hard_link_for_test_"))
   assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile, "nlink") == 2)
   assert (os.remove"_a_link_for_test_")