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Re: cygwin1.dll bug in open(O_EXCL)


On Aug 24 07:25, Eric Blake wrote:
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> I finally found root cause for the tar issue reported here:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00553.html
> 
> $ cat foo.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char**argv)
> {
>   int fd;
>   symlink ("oops", "broken");
>   fd = open ("broken", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600);
>   printf ("fd=%d, errno=%d: %s\n", fd, errno, strerror (errno));
>   return 0;
> }
> $ ./foo
> fd=3, errno=0: No error
> $ ls -F oops broken
> broken@  oops
> 
> According to POSIX, this should have failed with EEXIST, and oops should
> not have been created.

If I understand this right, it means that O_EXCL implies not following
symlinks.  I've applied a matching patch to CVS.  Please give it a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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