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authorKen Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>2019-12-27 11:43:58 -0500
committerKen Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>2020-01-17 07:43:02 -0500
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Cygwin: allow opening a symlink with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW
Up to now, opening a symlink with O_NOFOLLOW fails with ELOOP. Following Linux, allow this to succeed if O_PATH is also specified.
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 20126ce10..038a316db 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -1470,7 +1470,7 @@ open (const char *unix_path, int flags, ...)
if (!(fh = build_fh_name (unix_path, opt, stat_suffixes)))
__leave; /* errno already set */
- if ((flags & O_NOFOLLOW) && fh->issymlink ())
+ if ((flags & O_NOFOLLOW) && fh->issymlink () && !(flags & O_PATH))
{
set_errno (ELOOP);
__leave;