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Clarify meaning of unsafe symlinks
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Martin Pool
<mbp@samba.org>
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 05:30:28 +0000
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Martin Pool
<mbp@samba.org>
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 05:30:28 +0000
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bf(--copy-unsafe-links) will cause any links to be copied as the file
they point to on the destination. Using bf(--safe-links) will cause
unsafe links to be ommitted altogether.
+Symbolic links are considered unsafe if they are absolute symlinks
+(start with bf(/)), empty, or if they contain enough bf("..")
+components to ascend from the directory being copied.
+
manpagesection(DIAGNOSTICS)
rsync occasionally produces error messages that may seem a little