[PATCH 1/3] Cygwin: allow opening a symlink with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW

[Ken Brown]

Up to now, opening a symlink with O_NOFOLLOW fails with ELOOP.
Following Linux, allow this to succeed if O_PATH is also specified.
---
 winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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;
-- 
2.21.0