On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 21:42, Assar Westerlund wrote: > That's what it does. What makes you think that the copy is not > exact? The reason that second rsync is printing out those directories > is that the second rsync is also doing the same double setting of > directory permission. It doesn't know that there are no files that > need to be created. You could re-write the code so that it only > changes the permission on the directory when it needs to create a file > there, but that would be some amount of work.
Ah, that's my problem. I was assuming that rsync would not make any changes at all to a filesystem when mirroring, unless there were differences between the source and destination. Apparently that isn't true, this being one of the counter examples (perhaps the only counter-example?). I guess that means that what I found wasn't a bug, but rather just an un-implemented wish-list item for rsync. :) Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me, Elijah -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Newren Internet: http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired of pop-up webpages when surfing the internet? Look at http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren/noPopUps.html for how to get rid of them without spending a penny. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
