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@gmail.com>
Acked-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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)