fix(parity): rsync 3.4.1 symlink and special-node semantics (#287, #288)

#287:
- --safe-links: keep safe in-tree links AS symlinks and skip unsafe
  (absolute or ".."-escaping) ones, mirroring rsync's unsafe_symlink().
  Skipped links are recorded as delete-protected so --delete does not
  remove their destination mirror (no silent data loss).
- --copy-unsafe-links: preserve safe links as symlinks and dereference
  only unsafe ones.
- --munge-links: receiver-side rewrite storing /rsyncd-munged/-prefixed
  targets (rsync parity), replacing the no-op #SYMLINK sender prefix.
- -l: store the target verbatim, including absolute and ".." targets
  (rsync -l parity); the old receiver containment silently dropped them.

#288:
- --specials: recreate unix-domain sockets via mknod(S_IFSOCK), which
  Linux permits unprivileged; keep EEXIST/EPERM skip behavior.
- --copy-devices: copy a device's content into a regular file when
  requested; skip unrequested non-regular entries like rsync's default.
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@@ -277,11 +277,11 @@ void print_usage(void) {
printf(" Local receiver policy: never sent to the peer, off by default\n");
printf(" -l, --links Copy symlinks as symlinks\n");
printf(" -L, --copy-links Transform symlinks into referent files\n");
printf(" --safe-links Skip symlinks that point outside transfer tree\n");
printf(" --copy-unsafe-links Only transform unsafe symlinks into referent files\n");
printf(" --safe-links Skip symlinks whose target points outside the tree\n");
printf(" --copy-unsafe-links Copy unsafe symlinks (outside tree) as referent files\n");
printf(" -k, --copy-dirlinks Transform symlinks to directories into real dirs\n");
printf(" -K, --keep-dirlinks Keep an existing symlink-to-dir as that dir\n");
printf(" --munge-links Munge symlink targets on the wire (sender)\n");
printf(" --munge-links Munge stored symlink targets (/rsyncd-munged/) on the receiver\n");
printf(" -H, --hard-links Preserve hard-link relationships across the transfer\n");
printf(" -S, --sparse Handle sparse files efficiently\n");
printf(
@@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ void print_usage(void) {
printf(
" --devices Recreate device nodes on the destination (privileged; skipped when\n");
printf(" the receiver lacks CAP_MKNOD)\n");
printf(" --specials Recreate special files (FIFOs) on the destination (sockets "
"skipped)\n");
printf(" --specials Recreate special files (FIFOs, sockets) on the destination\n");
printf(" --copy-devices Copy a source device's content as a regular file instead\n");
printf(" --write-devices Write received data into an existing destination device node\n");
printf(" --inplace Update files in-place (no temp+rename)\n");