Symbolic links on Mac OSX

[smokin.jake at mac.com]

I have noticed an anomaly with symbolic links.

umask 027
mkdir folder1
echo 'hello world' > folder1/file1
cd folder1
ln -s file1 softfile1
rsync -a ../folder1/ ../folder2/
ls -lF ../folder*

../folder1:
total 16
-rw-r-----   1 alan  alan  12 Apr 26 00:00 file1
lrwxr-x---   1 alan  alan   5 Apr 26 00:02 softfile1@ -> file1

../folder2:
total 16
-rw-r-----   1 alan  alan  12 Apr 26 00:00 file1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 alan  alan   5 Apr 26 00:03 softfile1@ -> file1

The symbolic link has a new creation time and different permissions.
I am using rsync version 3.0.0cvs  protocol version 30.PR2
The Apple rsync  version 2.6.3  protocol version 28
gives the same result.

Is this a MacOSX quirk that I don't need to worry about.