Number of files transferred

Hello everybody,

I'm using rsync (debian 3.0.2-1) to test my pet projects for correctness; but
now I've come across a bug (?) in rsync - it doesn't count transferred links,
ie. "Number of files transferred:" is wrong.

See:

# mkdir a b
# ln -s /bin/ls a/link ; touch b/link
# ls -la a/* b/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 flip flip 7 15. Apr 06:53 a/link -> /bin/ls
-rw-r--r-- 1 flip flip 0 15. Apr 06:53 b/link

Now a test run shows that it'd send it, but doesn't count:
# rsync -a -v --stats a/ b/ -n
sending incremental file list
link -> /bin/ls

Number of files: 2
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 7 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 51
File list generation time: 0.005 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 63
Total bytes received: 15

sent 63 bytes received 15 bytes 156.00 bytes/sec
total size is 7 speedup is 0.09 (DRY RUN)

Neither does a real run:
# rsync -a -v --stats a/ b/
sending incremental file list
link -> /bin/ls

Number of files: 2
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 7 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 51
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 63
Total bytes received: 15

sent 63 bytes received 15 bytes 156.00 bytes/sec
total size is 7 speedup is 0.09

But the symlink was sent:
# ls -la a/* b/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 flip flip 7 15. Apr 06:53 a/link -> /bin/ls
lrwxrwxrwx 1 flip flip 7 15. Apr 06:53 b/link -> /bin/ls


Now I'd like to ask whether that's a policy change (ie. will stay so), or if
it's just a bug - in the first case I have to rewrite my test scripts, to
test for changes in some other way.


Thank you.


Regards,

Phil
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