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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-09-30 16:17:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-09-30 16:17:21 +0000 |
| commit | 1033e8ac73317e2aada27b5346afecca4cbaf49e (patch) | |
| tree | 2b9285bbdbb2ba1ac6155c47e94dedf91428f05e /lib/libc | |
| parent | a4127f0e5c2746cfc64abf21fed515a5082c8755 (diff) | |
Make it obvious that open(2) returns ELOOP if O_NOFOLLOW was specified
and the target is a symlink.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/open.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/open.2 b/lib/libc/sys/open.2 index 5340b71df1c..8cd7e13b20f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/open.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/open.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: open.2,v 1.16 2000/09/25 20:24:33 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: open.2,v 1.17 2000/09/30 16:17:20 millert Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: open.2,v 1.8 1995/02/27 12:35:14 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -184,7 +184,10 @@ the file does not exist, and the directory in which it is to be created does not permit writing. .It Bq Er ELOOP -Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname, +or the +.Dv O_NOFOLLOW +flag was specified and the target is a symbolic link. .It Bq Er EISDIR The named file is a directory, and the arguments specify it is to be opened for writing. |