[Bug 10629] rsync follows symlinks that point to same directory / endless loop

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10629

--- Comment #3 from roland <[email protected]> ---
still exists with rsync 3.4.1


% rsync --copy-links -av test test2
sending incremental file list
rsync: [sender]
readlink_stat("/private/tmp/test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2")
failed: Too many levels of symbolic links (62)
test/
test/test2/
test/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
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test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/
test/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/test2/

sent 927 bytes  received 148 bytes  2,150.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code
23) at main.c(1358) [sender=3.4.1]

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