On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 23:20:54 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> add a wrapper function to render open() POSIX-compliant on FreeBSD
>
> POSIX mandates that open(symlink, O_NOFOLLOW) fail with errno == ELOOP.
> FreeBSD chooses to deviate from this, but Got depends on it.  Introducing
> a wrapper avoids (1) the need to patch every occurrence, (2) having to
> check each release for new instances, and (3) slipups when modifying
> complex boolean expressions.

Is this really better than just checking for EMLINK in addition to
ELOOP?  Is it worth filing a bug with FreeBSD about this or do they
consider it to be a feature?

 - todd