[Bug 214633] Open symlink with O_NOFOLLOW should fail with ELOOP, not EMLINK

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            Bug ID: 214633
           Summary: Open symlink with O_NOFOLLOW should fail with ELOOP,
                    not EMLINK
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: standards
          Assignee: freebsd-standards at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: lantw44 at gmail.com

According to POSIX standard
(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html), open
function should fail to open a symlink with ELOOP when it is called with
O_NOFOLLOW flag. However, it returns EMLINK on FreeBSD.

It seems it was changed by this old commit:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/35088

This problem causes programs using GIO API to fail to open symlinks for writing
(bug 212572).

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