Hi Johannes,

On Jun 27 22:51, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> In 4b8222983f (Cygwin: fix errno values set by readlinkat, 2023-04-18)
> the code of `readlinkat()` was adjusted to align the `errno` with Linux'
> behavior.
> 
> To accommodate for that, the `gen_full_path_at()` function was modified,
> and the caller was adjusted to expect either `ENOENT` or `ENOTDIR` in
> the case of an empty `pathname`, not just `ENOENT`.
> 
> However, `readlinkat()` is not the only caller of that helper function.
> 
> And while most other callers simply propagate the `errno` produced by
> `gen_full_path_at()`, two other callers also want to special-case empty
> `pathnames` much like `readlinkat()`: `fchmodat()` and `fstatat()`.
> 
> Therefore, these two callers need to be changed to expect `ENOTDIR` in
> case of an empty `pathname`, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>

Looks like a good catch. Can you please also add a "Fixes:" tag line
and move the tar error description up into the commit message?


Thanks,
Corinna

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