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Diffstat (limited to 'src/xz/file_io.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/xz/file_io.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/file_io.c b/src/xz/file_io.c index 10829841..6e24c58a 100644 --- a/src/xz/file_io.c +++ b/src/xz/file_io.c @@ -370,15 +370,16 @@ io_open_src_real(file_pair *pair) } #ifdef O_NOFOLLOW - // Give an understandable error message in if reason + // Give an understandable error message if the reason // for failing was that the file was a symbolic link. // // Note that at least Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Darwin - // use ELOOP to indicate if O_NOFOLLOW was the reason + // use ELOOP to indicate that O_NOFOLLOW was the reason // that open() failed. Because there may be // directories in the pathname, ELOOP may occur also // because of a symlink loop in the directory part. - // So ELOOP doesn't tell us what actually went wrong. + // So ELOOP doesn't tell us what actually went wrong, + // and this stupidity went into POSIX-1.2008 too. // // FreeBSD associates EMLINK with O_NOFOLLOW and // Tru64 uses ENOTSUP. We use these directly here |