Clarify meaning of unsafe symlinks

7bd0cf5b · Martin Pool · fcb69e5c · 7bd0cf5b
Commit 7bd0cf5b authored Apr 08, 2002 by Martin Pool
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@@ -910,6 +910,10 @@ bf(--copy-unsafe-links) will cause any links to be copied as the file
 they point to on the destination.  Using bf(--safe-links) will cause
 unsafe links to be ommitted altogether.

+Symbolic links are considered unsafe if they are absolute symlinks
+(start with bf(/)), empty, or if they contain enough bf("..")
+components to ascend from the directory being copied.
+
 manpagesection(DIAGNOSTICS)

 rsync occasionally produces error messages that may seem a little