That indeed is not right, and it appears that other people have noticed the problem before but nobody has come up with a fix. The problem must be related to the unsafe_symlink() function in util.c. Martin noticed a strange thing in the code (see http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2002-April/006759.html) but I just tried his suggestion and it didn't help with your example. I'm sure I could figure it out if I spent more time on it but I've got other priorities right now. Try fiddling with it to see if you can come up with a better solution. It might help for you to build the t_unsafe test program that's in the Makefile but not built by default. I see Martin has also has a test for the option in testsuite/unsafe-links.test, and it would be good if that could be expanded to test for this case.
- Dave On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:02:46PM -0800, Seth Olsen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a bit confused about what the '--copy-unsafe-links' option > considers the 'source tree'. In the man page it says that for links > pointing outside the 'source tree' the file will be copied, but when I > try this, for all links pointing outside of the local directory the > files are copied even though the links point to files that are in the > directory tree that is being rsynced. I couldn't find anything definitive > on the web either. See the example below. > > Is this the expected behaviour? Is the 'source tree' just the > current directory? If so, it would be nice to have an option where > only links pointing outside of the 'parent source tree' > ('Test' in the example below) would be copied as files. > > rsyc-2.5.4 on RedHat-7.3 i386, XFS filesystem > > Thanks, > > Seth > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > example: > > chump0:~> ll Test/* > Test/Q1: > total 0 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:05 q1_1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:05 q1_2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 4 Jan 2 14:06 q1_3 -> q1_2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 24 Jan 2 14:09 q1_4 -> >/home/olsen/Test/Q2/q2_1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 15 Jan 2 14:42 q1_5 -> ../../test/qw.F > > Test/Q2: > total 0 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:06 q2_1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:06 q2_2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 4 Jan 2 14:06 q2_3 -> q2_1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 10 Jan 2 14:06 q2_4 -> ../Q1/q1_1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 10 Jan 2 14:06 q2_5 -> ../Q1/q1_3 > > chump0:~> rsync -rl --copy-unsafe-links Test Test2 > > chump0:~> ll Test2/Test/* > Test2/Test/Q1: > total 4.0k > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:48 q1_1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:48 q1_2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 4 Jan 2 14:48 q1_3 -> q1_2 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:48 q1_4 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 275 Jan 2 14:48 q1_5 > > Test2/Test/Q2: > total 0 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:48 q2_1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:48 q2_2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 olsen olsen 4 Jan 2 14:48 q2_3 -> q2_1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:48 q2_4 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 olsen olsen 0 Jan 2 14:48 q2_5 > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html