rsync and broken symlinks

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:38:42PM +0500, Yakov Hrebtov wrote:
> where is the message -- skipping non-regular file "broken-link"?

I can only imagine that this is some kind of OS misfeature.  Try running
rsync under something like "strace -f" (or your OS's equivalent) and see
what is going wrong with the system calls.  If you see readlink() return
-1 for the file, that would cause rsync to skip it as non-existent.

..wayne..