[musl] $ORIGIN rpath expansion without /proc: code looks wrong

[Alexander Sosedkin <monk@unboiled.info>]

Hello, I've encountered a case of a binary with an rpath of
/some/meaningful/lib:$ORIGIN/../lib
not starting up due to not finding /some/meaningful/lib/libxyz.so.
ldd'ing said it's there though.
And the library was found alright when I patchelf'd rpath to just
/some/meaningful/lib

I dug into musl code and came across that bit that checks /proc.
Sure enough, when I tried mounting /proc, it started working fine.
Yet the error handling from accessing /proc puzzles me:

ldso/dynlink.c, fixup_rpath():
                 l = readlink("/proc/self/exe", buf, buf_size);
                 if (l == -1) switch (errno) {
                 case ENOENT:
                 case ENOTDIR:
                 case EACCES:
                         break;
                 default:
                         return -1;
                 }
                 if (l >= buf_size)
                         return 0;
                 buf[l] = 0;
                 origin = buf;

hitting that break like I had means zeroing buf[-1], right?
Could somebody take a look at this and double-check that
this codepath makes sense?
My attempts at comprehending it fail irrecoverably at this line.

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