Fairly serious exclude problem with modules

[Carson Gaspar]

There is a rather major issue with excludes when using modules. I've seen 
no mention of this outside of vague warnings in the rsynd.conf man page. 
Given:

[test]
        path = /tmp/foo
        exclude = /bar/baz
And a file /tmp/foo/bar/baz/biff

rsync -avvH rsync://server/test/ /mydir/

correctly excludes the directory baz.

However:

rsync -avvH rsync://server/test/bar/ /mydir/bar/

does not

As far as I can tell, if the directory exported on the server has 
sub-directories, there is absolutely no way to reliably exclude full paths. 
This is _really_ bad if you want to make a directory available, but do not 
want some sensitive files in a subdirectory available (say, private key 
files).

The server _really_ should do some path canonicalization on the server side 
before comparing against excludes / includes.

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Carson
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