+#ifndef _WIN32
+ if (stat(name, &s) == -1 && errno == ENOENT
+ && lstat(name, &s) == 0 && S_ISLNK(s.st_mode)) {
+ /* 'name' is a dangling symlink. We want to create the file that
+ * the symlink points to, but POSIX says that open() with O_EXCL
+ * must fail with EEXIST if the named file is a symlink. So, we
+ * have to leave off O_EXCL and accept the race. */
+ flags = O_RDWR | O_CREAT;
+ } else {
+ flags = O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL;
+ }
+#else