Doc:

  #defiine lchown chown

could be bad on systems which have no lchown and where chown
follows symbollic links.  On such systems it might be better not to
try to chown symlinks at all.

diff --git a/rsync.h b/rsync.h
index fb7f333a89e826c7af6de19ae497200b8d457ab0..2bfe25063fb41890c162368e73369afa9346af94 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.h
+++ b/rsync.h
@@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ extern int errno;
 #define SUPPORT_LINKS HAVE_READLINK
 #define SUPPORT_HARD_LINKS HAVE_LINK
 
+/* This could be bad on systems which have no lchown and where chown
+ * follows symbollic links.  On such systems it might be better not to
+ * try to chown symlinks at all. */
 #ifndef HAVE_LCHOWN
 #define lchown chown
 #endif