Bug#666024: rsync --link-dest can incorrectly hardlink together destination files

2012-04-15 Thread Paul Slootman
[please Cc: 666024-forwar...@bugs.debian.org on any replies, thanks] Please see the attached Debian bug report, which includes a helpful bug-reproducing shell script; I've confirmed this still happens with 3.0.9. Paul Slootman On Tue 27 Mar 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: rsync > Version:

Bug#666024: rsync --link-dest can incorrectly hardlink together destination files

2012-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > With rsync --link-dest, if two different source files (not hardlinked > to each other) are both candidates for being hardlinked from files of > the same name in the link-dest directory, both of them may be so > hardlinked. The effect is that on the destination the two files > become har

Bug#666024: rsync --link-dest can incorrectly hardlink together destination files

2012-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: rsync Version: 3.0.7-2 With rsync --link-dest, if two different source files (not hardlinked to each other) are both candidates for being hardlinked from files of the same name in the link-dest directory, both of them may be so hardlinked. The effect is that on the destination the two fi