Patch from Marco d'Itri that sketches a --soften-links option.

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+From md@Linux.IT Fri Apr 12 21:45:04 2002
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+Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:44:22 +0200
+From: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
+To: mbp@samba.org
+Subject: rsync and debian mirrors
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+I run one of the debian mirrors, and I had to write this patch because
+my archive is split between more than one disk. Would you accept a more
+polished version of this patch for inclusion in rsync?
+
+--- syscall.c.orig      Thu May 31 16:14:07 2001
++++ syscall.c   Thu May 31 16:40:46 2001
+@@ -45,9 +45,14 @@
+ #if HAVE_LINK
+ int do_link(char *fname1, char *fname2)
+ {
++       int st;
++
+        if (dry_run) return 0;
+        CHECK_RO
+-       return link(fname1, fname2);
++       st = link(fname1, fname2);
++       if (/*soften_links &&*/ st != 0 && errno == EXDEV)
++               st = symlink(fname1, fname2);
++       return st;
+ }
+ #endif
+
+
+-- 
+ciao,
+Marco
+