need option to disable following symlinks on "-R"

[sitaramc]

Hi,

Could there be an option to disable symlinks when running "create" with "-R" please?

I run par2 on a directory which has some critical files. Unfortunately this directory also has some symlinks, whose targets are elsewhere in the file system.

I did not realise par2 was following the symlinks. Sometime later, when I ran a verify, par2 showed some files needing repair.

I made the mistake of not checking exactly what files were reported as broken, and not properly worrying about why they would be broken, and blindly did a repair. It took me a while to realise this had ended up essentially reverting changes to those target files, which as I said were outside the directory I gave to "par2 create".

At the moment my workaround is to include the following in my script, but it would be nice if that were not needed.

    find $@ -type l | tar --remove-files -T - -cvf save.symlinks
    ... run the "par2 c [...]" here...
    tar -xvf save.symlinks && rm save.symlinks