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From:
Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject:
Re: -portable: add a wrapper for open() on FreeBSD
To:
Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>, "Todd C. Miller" <millert@openbsd.org>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 26 Sep 2021 14:05:33 +0200

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On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:57:49PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> I suspect it is not intentional.
> 
> It looks like EMLINK from open(symlink, O_NOFOLLOW) comes from this change:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29323
> (I don't have a freebsd system to test with, so I might be wrong.)

I made a mistake and did no go back far enough in history.

Turns out this behaviour was introduced in FreeBSD way back in 1998:
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=100ceca222a193e5d374a3dc9782287785dd9b61

No rationale given for the switch from ELOOP to EMLINK.