Commits on Sep 8, 2016

1. Add experimental symlink support …

   This implementation of symlinks takes a symlink and opens the original file. The only difference is that as Source the symlink path is reported. The advantage of this implementation is that everything related to file handling is identical with non symlink files as the original file is harvested. All close_* options work as expected. State information is stored for the original file, not the symlink itself. In case a symlink and original file are harvested, only one will be harvested as they share the same inode information.
   
   * Add test to verify that symlinks are disabled by default
   * Add test for symlink handling
   * Improve error handling in harvester. Return proper error messages instead of logging it. Prevents too many log messages.
   * Remove IsRegular file call as not needed anymore and leads to additional Stat calls
   * Add documentation
   
   See elastic#2277 and elastic#1767

   

   ruflin committed Sep 8, 2016
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