/* Implementation of to_fileio_readlink. */
-static char *
+static gdb::optional<std::string>
inf_child_fileio_readlink (struct target_ops *self,
struct inferior *inf, const char *filename,
int *target_errno)
#if defined (PATH_MAX)
char buf[PATH_MAX];
int len;
- char *ret;
len = readlink (filename, buf, sizeof buf);
if (len < 0)
{
*target_errno = host_to_fileio_error (errno);
- return NULL;
+ return {};
}
- ret = (char *) xmalloc (len + 1);
- memcpy (ret, buf, len);
- ret[len] = '\0';
- return ret;
+ return std::string (buf, len);
#else
*target_errno = FILEIO_ENOSYS;
- return NULL;
+ return {};
#endif
}