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 FreeBSD has the same issue for EMLINK instead of EFTYPE. This portability issue was introduced in cfea2f2da8 (packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is regular file, 2025-02-28) Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@xxxxxxxxx> --- wrapper.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c index 3c79778055..f74e3f7747 100644 --- a/wrapper.c +++ b/wrapper.c @@ -737,7 +737,26 @@ 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); + /* + * 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. FreeBSD does the same with + * EMLINK. + */ +#ifdef __NetBSD__ +#define SYMLINK_ERRNO EFTYPE +#elif defined(__FreeBSD__) +#define SYMLINK_ERRNO EMLINK +#endif +#if SYMLINK_ERRNO + if (ret < 0 && errno == SYMLINK_ERRNO) { + errno = ELOOP; + return -1; + } +#undef SYMLINK_ERRNO +#endif + return ret; #else struct stat st; if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) -- 2.49.0