From 984b45142a1771edcd28c9f7e2fa3269e7e2dde3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn L McGrath <bug1@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 04:50:35 +0000
Subject: fix a bug where `which' doesn't check whether the file passed as an
 argument is a regular file, patch by Arthur Othieno

---
 debianutils/which.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'debianutils/which.c')

diff --git a/debianutils/which.c b/debianutils/which.c
index 27646d520..120f1e72f 100644
--- a/debianutils/which.c
+++ b/debianutils/which.c
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ static int file_exists(char *file)
 {
 	struct stat filestat;
 
-	if (stat(file, &filestat) == 0 && filestat.st_mode & S_IXUSR)
+	if (stat(file, &filestat) == 0 &&
+			S_ISREG(filestat.st_mode) &&
+			filestat.st_mode & S_IXUSR)
 		return 1;
 	else
 		return 0;
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