On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:28 AM Todd C. Miller <mill...@openbsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:52:53 +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
>
> > On OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 patch 006, i get peculiar results from readlink(1)
> > with arguments -f with a symlink to /
> >
> > $ readlink -f /
> > /
> >
> > $ ln -s / test; readlink -f test; rm test
> > readlink: test: Is a directory
>
> That appears to be a bug in the __realpath() system call.
> I guess namei() is returning EISDIR because wantparent is set.
> It seems likely that the check in sys___realpath() for whether or
> not LOCKPARENT is used needs to be fixed, though I have only
> read the code and not spent time in the kernel debugger.
>
> Perhaps beck@ has an idea?
>
>  - todd
>

Yes, I just committed the fix :)

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