3 I run one of the debian mirrors, and I had to write this patch because
4 my archive is split between more than one disk. Would you accept a more
5 polished version of this patch for inclusion in rsync?
7 To use this patch, run these commands for a successful build:
9 patch -p1 <patches/soften-links.diff
10 ./configure (optional if already run)
15 @@ -59,9 +59,14 @@ int do_symlink(const char *fname1, const
17 int do_link(const char *fname1, const char *fname2)
21 if (dry_run) return 0;
22 RETURN_ERROR_IF_RO_OR_LO;
23 - return link(fname1, fname2);
24 + st = link(fname1, fname2);
25 + if (/*soften_links &&*/ st != 0 && errno == EXDEV)
26 + st = symlink(fname1, fname2);