[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_glibc]] # IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-02 hm, is it a known issue that open("somesymlink", O_RDONLY | O_NOFOLLOW) does not fail with ELOOP? pinotree: iirc there is code for it, maybe not the same behavior as on linux ## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2013-05-08 the hurd issue is that O_NOFOLLOW seems broken on symlinks, and thus open(symlink, O_NOFOLLOW) doesn't fail with ELOOP I don't really see why it should fail since NOFOLLOW says not to follow the symlink yeah, but you cannot open a symlink ah right ok interesting :)