As documented on NetBSD's man page, open with the O_NOFOLLOW flag and a
symlink returns -1 and sets errno to EFTYPE which differs from POSIX.
This patch fixes the following test failure:
$ sh t0602-reffiles-fsck.sh --verbose
--- expect 2025-05-02 23:05:23.920890147 +0000
+++ err 2025-05-02 23:05:23.916794959 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-error: packed-refs: badRefFiletype: not a regular file but a symlink
+error: unable to open '.git/packed-refs': Inappropriate file type or format
not ok 12 - the filetype of packed-refs should be checked
This portability issue was introduced in Commit
cfea2f2da8 (packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is regular file, 2025-02-28)
Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@xxxxxxxxx>
---
wrapper.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 3c79778055..4d448d7c57 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -737,7 +737,19 @@ int is_empty_or_missing_file(const char *filename)
int open_nofollow(const char *path, int flags)
{
#ifdef O_NOFOLLOW
- return open(path, flags | O_NOFOLLOW);
+ int ret = open(path, flags | O_NOFOLLOW);
+#ifdef __NetBSD__
+ /*
+ * NetBSD sets errno to EFTYPE when path is a symlink. The only other
+ * time this errno occurs when O_REGULAR is used. Since we don't use
+ * it anywhere we can avoid an lstat here.
+ */
+ if (ret < 0 && errno == EFTYPE) {
+ errno = ELOOP;
+ return -1;
+ }
+#endif
+ return ret;
#else
struct stat st;
if (lstat(path, &st) < 0)
--
2.49.0
