Hi, On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:27:20PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Thu 16 Dec 2004, Wayne Davison wrote: > > > > As for the fix, one could argue that "ignore nonreadable" has a bug in > > it when dealing with symlinks -- if readlink() worked, the symlink was > > readable, so there is no need to call access() on it. The appended > > patch changes this so that rsync doesn't ever use access() on a symlink.
Surely good fix, thanks. > Just to be certain - readlink() is only called if --copy-links is NOT > specified? In that case, I agree. Yes, if copy_links is set, then stat() is called instead. -- ldv
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