DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5442] New: setting times to symlinks which do not point to existing files causes error reports

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5442

           Summary: setting times to symlinks which do not point to existing
                    files causes error reports
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.0.3
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Mac OS X
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: ij.list at gmail.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


When changing times on a symlink in Mac OS X, the system actually sets the
times on the symlink destination file. If the destination file does not exist,
syscall returns error.

This behaviour causes rsync to report many "failed to set times on" errors when
source/destination directories contain symlinks which do not point to existing
files. It would be nice if (on Mac OS X only) setting of times to symlinks
would be appropriately guarded or not executed at all since it does not behave
correctly.


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