https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6027
------- Comment #2 from m...@mattmccutchen.net 2009-01-13 22:36 CST ------- In general, rsync is not designed to cope with corrupt filesystems, but if it handles a file with an empty name, I suppose it should handle this too. I had a slightly different patch: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff/7c18847f1608618134ffd166d97952177502d998 The place where the code is hooked is a matter of taste; I preferred to catch the invalid data as soon as possible to avoid any potential surprises. On the other hand, the error message definitely needs to be more clearly distinct from the "symlink has no referent" message that can happen with --copy-links. It may not be easy to test the code on a true empty symlink, but I at least saw the code path in action by temporarily hacking readlink_stat to substitute an empty string as the target if the symlink's name began with "z". :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
