rsync always try change owner and group of symlink in --fake-super mode

Hi all. I long time discover strange to me behavior. If I add --fake-super option on both sides rsync start always set owner and group of symlink. What interesting there no error, but it done each time as it has been changed. Simple reproduce: $ mkdir rsync.symlinks $ echo 'file content' >

Re: rsync always try change owner and group of symlink in --fake-super mode

ln -s real-file symlink file.itself is ./rsync.symlinks/file.itself, but you are trying to link ./file.itself (which presumably doesn't exist) to the real file. Since a symlink is just a pointer, it gets created, but doesn't point to any real file. Try: ln -s rsync.symlinks/file.itself .