hello,
i have made a patch , adding an option for for avoiding
(bulk-)recreation of symlinks when transferring from macos to linux for
example.
on linux (and possibly other platforms) , symlinks have generic 777
permission.
on macos, you can set individual permission with chmod -h.
patch is at at
https://github.com/devZer0/rsync-workingcopy/commit/7a8d295e531627e0a3d9e41ceedf10ab9be7fb5e
we have checking for lchmod() in autoconf, but for lchmod there seems
stub in linux glibc headers which makes this check return success (where
it shouldn't)
i spent some thoughts if we better do compile time check for platform to
decide to ignore that or not , or do compile time or runtime check for
lchmod() syscall return values, but i think it's more easy and
predictable, to control this manually. it's more transparent and less
magic this way.
also see:
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/443
maybe somebody want's to review/test and provide feedback.
regards
Roland
ps:
and yes, i am also using AI. i'm a sysadmin and not a programmer.
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