From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:53:35 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Do not try to send a symlink with a 0-length value.
X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/6e8061371776c0716b9eab43c04c48a338cf726a

Do not try to send a symlink with a 0-length value.
This avoids a transfer error in the receiver.
---

diff --git a/flist.c b/flist.c
index 3e79ce10..1fa2cac8 100644
--- a/flist.c
+++ b/flist.c
@@ -1385,6 +1385,14 @@ static struct file_struct *send_file_name(int f, struct file_list *flist,
 		if (preserve_links && S_ISLNK(file->mode)) {
 			symlink_name = F_SYMLINK(file);
 			symlink_len = strlen(symlink_name);
+			if (symlink_len == 0) {
+				io_error |= IOERR_GENERAL;
+				f_name(file, fbuf);
+				rprintf(FERROR_XFER,
+				    "skipping symlink with 0-length value: %s\n",
+				    full_fname(fbuf));
+				return NULL;
+			}
 		} else {
 			symlink_name = NULL;
 			symlink_len = 0;