[steadytao]

Fixes #1147

Summary

Restores the skipped-operation result when no-follow symlink chmod is unsupported. Batch-replay regression for non-0777 symlink modes, covering new and existing normal and dangling links and checking that target permissions and contents remain unchanged.

[steadytao]

@ckujau please test

[mtsapv]

Thanks so much for doing this. I owe you. While the patch itself was fairly straightforward, I will admit that the needed test was definitely slowing me down. I'm making a close study of yours in anticipation of possible future need.

I've run this patch though a variety of stress tests (using 6 different architectures), including the example given by @ckujau as well as a complete transfer of an OpenBSD system to Debian13. The latter was done with both version 3.5.2 (which produced many "unsupported" errors) and with this patch (which ran completely clean). Hopefully @ckujau will have the same results. I've added to latter test to my regular checklist.

Sorry to have created the need for this patch. Thanks again. Take care.

[ckujau]

Sorry for the delay, I did not expect fix to be available this quickly :-)

Yes, with that commit applied, the error is indeed gone. I can copy symlinks off *BSD systems again, w/o that error message. Thank you for fixing this so quickly!

Don't know if you do these around here, but feel free to add:

Tested-by: Christian Kujau lists@nerdbynature.de