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

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





------- Comment #6 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2010-08-14 15:28 CST -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > 
> > You can also do the test by hand:
> > 
> > $ ln -s nonexistent broken
> > $ ln broken broken2
> > 
> 
> # ln -s nonexistent broken
> # ln broken broken2
> # ll non* brok*
> ls: non*: No such file or directory
> lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 11 Aug 14 11:01 broken -> nonexistent
> lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 11 Aug 14 11:01 broken2 -> nonexistent

Was that on the HP-UX server?  If so, then it's strange that the rsync package
you installed was not configured to hard-link symlinks, but there's nothing we
can do about third-party packages.  If you build your own rsync and it still
doesn't want to hard-link symlinks, we can look into why.


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