+ /* Dereference symlinks for source and destination names. In the in-place
+ * case this ensures that, if the source name is a symlink, we replace its
+ * target instead of replacing the symlink by a regular file. In the
+ * non-in-place, this has the same effect for the destination name. */
+ src_name = follow_symlinks(src_name_);
+ dst_name = (in_place
+ ? xasprintf("%s.tmp", src_name)
+ : follow_symlinks(dst_name_));
+