DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7618] symlinks and --link-dest

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7618





------- Comment #4 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2010-08-14 02:49 CST -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Is your OS capable of hard-linking symlinks?  Check the value of
> > CAN_HARDLINK_SYMLINK in config.h when you build rsync.
> 
> I installed it from binary package (on both sides), so I can not check it.

You can also do the test by hand:

$ ln -s nonexistent broken
$ ln broken broken2

If that fails, rsync assumes that link(2) follows symlinks in its first
argument and therefore does not try to hard-link symlinks.


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