Problem syncing dirtree with dangling symlinks

[Adrian Phillips]

I'm trying to copy a directory tree which includes a subtree which is
used to build a CD image. Now this image has symlinks that don't point
to anywhere in the current filesystem, ie. if one was to chroot to the
CD tree they would be valid.

cfengine (version 2.0.b2) does access control based upon the
realname. This doesn't work when the realname doesn't point to
anywhere because access control does a realname call :-

#ifdef HAVE_REALPATH
if (realpath(filename,realname) == NULL)
   {
   snprintf(conn->output,bufsize*2,"Couldn't resolve filename %s from host 
%s\n",filename,conn->hostname);
   Verbose(conn->output);
   return false;
   }
#else

2 questions :-

- why when copying symlinks AS symlinks are the checks on the realname
  ?

- how to make cfengine copy dangling symlinks ?

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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