Re: standards/43154: wrong errno from open( , O_NOFOLLOW, )

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/43154; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: standards/43154: wrong errno from open( , O_NOFOLLOW, )
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:51:30 +0000

 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 08:35:00PM +0000, mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost wrote:
  >     open ("symlink", O_NOFOLLOW, ) returns an errno of EMLINK.
  >     POSIX1.2008 says it should return ELOOP
  >     (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/)
 
 EMLINK would be quite wrong here, since EMLINK normally means "too
 many hard links to this object".
 
 The problem is, I can't find any instances of EMLINK in the kernel
 that could be generating this. What fs are you seeing it on?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost