From e1f5b801cfdb3ec4fcc9784ef23c13bc8f02f998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jay <jay@gambitresearch.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:32:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixed bug causing symlinks to fail in the host_vars,
 group_vars etc directories

---
 lib/ansible/inventory/vars_plugins/group_vars.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/vars_plugins/group_vars.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/vars_plugins/group_vars.py
index 3473b3192c0..06a22169a7a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/vars_plugins/group_vars.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/vars_plugins/group_vars.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def _load_vars_from_path(path, results):
     # symbolic link
     if stat.S_ISLNK(pathstat.st_mode):
         try:
-            target = os.readlink(path)
+            target = os.path.realpath(path)
         except os.error, err2:
             raise errors.AnsibleError("The symbolic link at %s "
                 "is not readable: %s.  Please check its permissions."