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-rw-r--r--erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c b/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c
index 42f41c5f3d..878beb055b 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/drivers/unix/unix_efile.c
@@ -360,7 +360,12 @@ efile_openfile(Efile_error* errInfo, /* Where to return error codes. */
int fd;
int mode; /* Open mode. */
- if (stat(name, &statbuf) >= 0 && !ISREG(statbuf)) {
+ if (stat(name, &statbuf) < 0) {
+ /* statbuf is undefined: if the caller depends on it,
+ i.e. invoke_read_file(), fail the call immediately */
+ if (pSize && flags == EFILE_MODE_READ)
+ return check_error(-1, errInfo);
+ } else if (!ISREG(statbuf)) {
/*
* For UNIX only, here is some ugly code to allow
* /dev/null to be opened as a file.