On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 02:05:33PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> 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.

It does not look like there is any hope for this to change:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214633