On native Windows (but not on Linux!), when stat() fails with error EOVERFLOW, you know that the file is a regular file of size >= 4 GiB. This allows to improve the errno value here:
2021-01-04 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> link: Improve trailing slash handling on native Windows. * lib/link.c (link): If stat() fails, provide a better errno. diff --git a/lib/link.c b/lib/link.c index 87dae40..21c7f7a 100644 --- a/lib/link.c +++ b/lib/link.c @@ -85,16 +85,24 @@ link (const char *file1, const char *file2) errno = EPERM; return -1; } - /* Reject trailing slashes on non-directories; mingw does not + /* Reject trailing slashes on non-directories; native Windows does not support hard-linking directories. */ if ((len1 && (file1[len1 - 1] == '/' || file1[len1 - 1] == '\\')) || (len2 && (file2[len2 - 1] == '/' || file2[len2 - 1] == '\\'))) { + /* If stat() fails, then link() should fail for the same reason. */ struct stat st; - if (stat (file1, &st) == 0 && S_ISDIR (st.st_mode)) - errno = EPERM; - else + if (stat (file1, &st)) + { + if (errno == EOVERFLOW) + /* It's surely a file, not a directory (see stat-w32.c). */ + errno = ENOTDIR; + return -1; + } + if (!S_ISDIR (st.st_mode)) errno = ENOTDIR; + else + errno = EPERM; return -1; } /* CreateHardLink("b/.","a",NULL) creates file "b", so we must check