From 9d44421024fda7554d8c0ae8ec37085917416e18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ward Fisher <wfisher@ucar.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:58:24 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Work in a one-line change as originally suggested in
 https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2426.

---
 libsrc/posixio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libsrc/posixio.c b/libsrc/posixio.c
index 0e1c185003..5e541faac4 100644
--- a/libsrc/posixio.c
+++ b/libsrc/posixio.c
@@ -1634,7 +1634,7 @@ posixio_create(const char *path, int ioflags,
 #endif
 	if(fd < 0)
 	{
-		status = errno;
+		status = errno ? errno : ENOENT;
 		goto unwind_new;
 	}
 	*((int *)&nciop->fd) = fd; /* cast away const */