From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:57:47 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: tar: work around FreeBSD symlink incompatibility with POSIX
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tar: work around FreeBSD symlink incompatibility with POSIX

* src/extract.c (maybe_recoverable): Treat EMLINK like ELOOP, for
FreeBSD.  Problem reported by Christian Weisgerber in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-11/msg00080.html>.
---

diff --git a/src/extract.c b/src/extract.c
index 6711f87..c52c9ce 100644
--- a/src/extract.c
+++ b/src/extract.c
@@ -609,6 +609,9 @@ maybe_recoverable (char *file_name, bool regular, bool *interdir_made)
   switch (e)
     {
     case ELOOP:
+      /* With open ("symlink", O_NOFOLLOW|...), POSIX says errno == ELOOP,
+	 but FreeBSD through at least 8.1 uses errno == EMLINK.  */
+    case EMLINK:
       if (! regular
 	  || old_files_option != OVERWRITE_OLD_FILES || dereference_option)
 	break;