On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, System Administrator
<ad...@bitwise.net> wrote:
> To simplify maintenance of a carp firewall cluster, I setup system
> replication with rdist(1), which works rather nicely with one notable
> exception where cmdspecial fires even when there are no updated files.
> It is the only instance of cmdspecial that misfires, it is also the
> only instance that specifies globbing explicitly.
>
> If this is known (or a feature), where is it documented? If this is a
> bug, how do I go about tracking it down?
My inclination would be to leave the behavior (I can see it as useful,
and actually wonder if I may have used this by accident in a past
life) as is but have your command check the $FILES env variable and do
nothing if it's empty:
The cmdspecial command is similar to the special command, except it is
executed only when the entire command is completed instead of after each
file is updated. The list of files is placed in the FILES environment
variable. Each file name in FILES is separated by a `:' (colon).
Philip Guenther
