From 368cb1fe20b66b91389f834019e2c2c18bdae8b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:12:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] avoid deleting valid symbolic links to .htoprc so that home
 directories can be used with both old and new versions of htop (see
 #3496731).

---
 Settings.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Settings.c b/Settings.c
index f2573e82..4782e84b 100644
--- a/Settings.c
+++ b/Settings.c
@@ -239,7 +239,9 @@ Settings* Settings_new(ProcessList* pl, Header* header, int cpuCount) {
       mkdir(htopDir, 0700);
       free(htopDir);
       free(configDir);
-      if (access(legacyDotfile, R_OK) != 0) {
+      struct stat st;
+      lstat(legacyDotfile, &st);
+      if (access(legacyDotfile, R_OK) != 0 || S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
          free(legacyDotfile);
          legacyDotfile = NULL;
       }