From ca6a7d15003083b81e2a6d09a74c224c6ce45073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:01:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] on linux, symlinks can't have ACLs, see #4044

(cherry picked from commit ca1928c92596d18fd240db604315680145265c43)
---
 src/borg/platform/linux.pyx | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/borg/platform/linux.pyx b/src/borg/platform/linux.pyx
index 7b963c9e3..edd83e48b 100644
--- a/src/borg/platform/linux.pyx
+++ b/src/borg/platform/linux.pyx
@@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ def acl_set(path, item, numeric_owner=False, fd=None):
     cdef acl_t access_acl = NULL
     cdef acl_t default_acl = NULL
 
+    if stat.S_ISLNK(item.get('mode', 0)):
+        # Linux does not support setting ACLs on symlinks
+        return
+
     if fd is None and isinstance(path, str):
         path = os.fsencode(path)
     if numeric_owner: