From ef2b12e218be09e0e0a48f7640edd7701dd95776 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mboelen <michael@cisofy.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 23:17:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added block and character type devices as symlinks

---
 include/functions | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/functions b/include/functions
index e412d7c4..39487967 100644
--- a/include/functions
+++ b/include/functions
@@ -1300,6 +1300,7 @@
                         SYMLINK_USE_READLINK=1
                         logtext "Note: Using real readlink binary to determine symlinks"
                         tFILE=`${READLINKBINARY} -f ${sFILE}`
+                        logtext "Result: readlink shows ${tFILE} as output"
                     fi
                 fi
                 # Check if we can find the file now
@@ -1309,6 +1310,14 @@
                     sFILE="${tFILE}"
                     logtext "Result: symlink found, pointing to file ${sFILE}"
                     FOUNDPATH=1
+                elif [ -b ${tFILE} ]; then
+                    sFILE="${tFILE}"
+                    logtext "Result: symlink found, pointing to block device ${sFILE}"
+                    FOUNDPATH=1
+                elif [ -c ${tFILE} ]; then
+                    sFILE="${tFILE}"
+                    logtext "Result: symlink found, pointing to character device ${sFILE}"
+                    FOUNDPATH=1
                 elif [ -d ${tFILE} ]; then
                     sFILE="${tFILE}"
                     logtext "Result: symlink found, pointing to directory ${sFILE}"