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This has been niggling me for a while, but am only now getting around to reporting it. I have reproduced the problem with rsync 3.1.0 and nothing in the news file for 3.1.1pre2 looks hopeful... In some filing systems it is possible to have symlinks which are themselves hard linked, i.e. have a link count greater than 1. For example, $ ls -ali /tmp/rsync-in/ total 40 4063036241 drwx------ 2

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3692 Summary: regression: symlinks are created as hardlinks with -- link-dest Product: rsync Version: 2.6.7 Platform: x86 URL: http://rsync.samba.org OS/Version: FreeBSD Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: core

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7618 Summary: symlinks and --link-dest Product: rsync Version: 3.0.7 Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: the_majkl at seznam.cz QAContact:

...fname, file, &sx)) { + if (verbose > 2) + rprintf(FINFO, "recreating %s due to changed attributes\n", fname); + goto recreate_symlink; + } if (itemizing) itemize(fname, file, ndx, 0, &sx, 0, 0, NULL); #if defined SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS && defined CAN_HARDLINK_SYMLINK @@ -1538,7 +1547,9 @@ if (remove_source_files == 1) goto return_with_success; goto cleanup; - } + } else + iflags = ITEM_REPORT_CHANGE; + recreate_symlink: /* Not the right symlink (or not a symlink), so * delete it. */ if (delete_item(fname, sx.st.st_mode, del_...

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5297 Summary: merge test fails Product: rsync Version: 3.0.0 Platform: Other OS/Version: SunOS Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us QAContact: