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This modification incorrectly assumes that the symbolic link cannot be longer than the value of SYMLINK_MAX returned by pathconf(). However, the value returned by pathconf() is out-of-date by the time readlink() is called, and so the off-by-one buffer overflow risk is still present because in between the two calls, the location of /usr/bin/perl could can change to a file system with a larger SYMLINK_MAX value. Also, if SYMLINK_MAX is indeterminate (that is, if pathconf() returned -1 without setting errno), the code uses an arbitrary large buffer size (10000) that it hopes will be sufficient, but there is a small chance that readlink() could can return exactly this size.
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