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. > Comments or disagreement?
Just to be certain - readlink() is only called if --copy-links is NOT specified? In that case, I agree. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
