From 176442eb1554a674dfa291585abd5eb54aa213d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:50:39 +0200
Subject: fix: backup and restore of symlink

---
 src/cmd/restore.rs | 6 ++----
 src/fsiter.rs      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cmd/restore.rs b/src/cmd/restore.rs
index cb42114..147c422 100644
--- a/src/cmd/restore.rs
+++ b/src/cmd/restore.rs
@@ -168,11 +168,9 @@ fn restore_symlink(path: &Path, entry: &FilesystemEntry) -> RestoreResult<()> {
     debug!("  mkdir {}", parent.display());
     if !parent.exists() {
         std::fs::create_dir_all(parent)?;
-        {
-            symlink(path, entry.symlink_target().unwrap())?;
-        }
     }
-    debug!("restored regular {}", path.display());
+    symlink(entry.symlink_target().unwrap(), path)?;
+    debug!("restored symlink {}", path.display());
     Ok(())
 }
 
diff --git a/src/fsiter.rs b/src/fsiter.rs
index f59fb64..57b6fd5 100644
--- a/src/fsiter.rs
+++ b/src/fsiter.rs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ impl Iterator for FsIterator {
 
 fn new_entry(e: &DirEntry) -> FsIterResult<FilesystemEntry> {
     let path = e.path();
-    let meta = std::fs::metadata(path);
+    let meta = std::fs::symlink_metadata(path);
     debug!("metadata for {:?}: {:?}", path, meta);
     let meta = match meta {
         Ok(meta) => meta,
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