DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7618] Symlink permissions disqualify --link-dest even when they can't be set

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





------- Comment #20 from the_majkl at seznam.cz  2010-08-15 13:42 CST -------
(In reply to comment #19)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > hpuh:/home/zumrova # ls -l .tsm
> > lrwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             13 Mar 23  2006 .tsm -> /usr/tsm/.tsm
> 
> So that's it.  Unfortunately, the only workarounds I can offer are to exclude
> the symlink or recreate it on the source with 777 permissions by setting your
> umask to 0.
> 
> > But then I would expect rsync to consider the symlink changed every time, not
> > only when running with --link-dest.
> 
> I should have been clearer.  Treating differences in symlink permissions as
> significant even on systems where they can't be set is not the expected
> behavior, it is a bug specific to --link-dest.
> 

That's my opinion too :-) Is it a known bug? Will it be fixed in new version?

Very thanks, Mike


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