Taken from: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=patch;h=39183b953c68a489cc0b9aefb8974711c834fb38 From 39183b953c68a489cc0b9aefb8974711c834fb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:21:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] hurd: Make symlink return EEXIST on existing target directory 8ef17919509e ("hurd: Fix EINVAL error on linking to a slash-trailing path [BZ #32569]) made symlink return ENOTDIR, but the gnulib testsuite does not recognize it for such a situation, and EEXIST is indeed more comprehensible to users. --- sysdeps/mach/hurd/symlinkat.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/symlinkat.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/symlinkat.c index e7dfb673df..cb6250e6f0 100644 --- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/symlinkat.c +++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/symlinkat.c @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ __symlinkat (const char *from, int fd, const char *to) if (! *name) /* Can't link to the existing directory itself. */ - err = ENOTDIR; + err = EEXIST; else /* Create a new, unlinked node in the target directory. */ err = __dir_mkfile (dir, O_WRITE, 0777 & ~_hurd_umask, &node); -- 2.49.0