Hi Brian, "brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I suspect we'll also hit this on FreeBSD, which has a similar issue in > that it returns `EMLINK` instead of `ELOOP`. Good memory. I can confirm that FreeBSD fails in the same place with a message for EMLINK. I'll write another patch for that. > I do wish these two OSes would provide an appropriate POSIX-compatible > `open` call when set with `_POSIX_SOURCE`, since this is one of the > biggest portability problems with them. It is documented in their man pages, so I assume it is intentional. But I don't see any benefit to differing from POSIX here. I'll see if I can find any discussion before I submit a bug report. Collin
