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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:01:06 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 214633] Open symlink with O_NOFOLLOW should fail with ELOOP, not EMLINK
Message-ID:  <bug-214633-15@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D214633

            Bug ID: 214633
           Summary: Open symlink with O_NOFOLLOW should fail with ELOOP,
                    not EMLINK
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: standards
          Assignee: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: lantw44@gmail.com

According to POSIX standard
(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html), open
function should fail to open a symlink with ELOOP when it is called with
O_NOFOLLOW flag. However, it returns EMLINK on FreeBSD.

It seems it was changed by this old commit:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/35088

This problem causes programs using GIO API to fail to open symlinks for wri=
ting
(bug 212572).

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