diff --git a/contrib/pjdfstest/tests/open/16.t b/contrib/pjdfstest/tests/open/16.t
index 598ed895a68e..7f796d61a365 100644
--- a/contrib/pjdfstest/tests/open/16.t
+++ b/contrib/pjdfstest/tests/open/16.t
@@ -1,19 +1,27 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # $FreeBSD: head/tools/regression/pjdfstest/tests/open/16.t 219621 2011-03-13 19:35:13Z pjd $
 
-desc="open returns ELOOP when O_NOFOLLOW was specified and the target is a symbolic link"
-
 dir=`dirname $0`
 . ${dir}/../misc.sh
 
+case "${os}" in
+Darwin|Linux)
+	error=ELOOP
+	;;
+*)
+	error=EMLINK
+	;;
+esac
+desc="open returns $error when O_NOFOLLOW was specified and the target is a symbolic link"
+
 echo "1..6"
 
 n0=`namegen`
 n1=`namegen`
 
 expect 0 symlink ${n0} ${n1}
-expect ELOOP open ${n1} O_RDONLY,O_CREAT,O_NOFOLLOW 0644
-expect ELOOP open ${n1} O_RDONLY,O_NOFOLLOW
-expect ELOOP open ${n1} O_WRONLY,O_NOFOLLOW
-expect ELOOP open ${n1} O_RDWR,O_NOFOLLOW
+expect $error open ${n1} O_RDONLY,O_CREAT,O_NOFOLLOW 0644
+expect $error open ${n1} O_RDONLY,O_NOFOLLOW
+expect $error open ${n1} O_WRONLY,O_NOFOLLOW
+expect $error open ${n1} O_RDWR,O_NOFOLLOW
 expect 0 unlink ${n1}