Re: how to catch this file name #something#

2014-12-31 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am completely confused about what you are asking for here. Rsync uses patterns with some special additions that are only similar to shell globbing. If you have a file named "#something#" then any of the following in an exclude-from file would match

how to catch this file name #something#

2014-12-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Trying to cat filenames like #something#. neither of the things I thought up work. *#* "#"* At least the second one above does work in a ls command like: ls "#"* #something# I understood an exclude file would use shell globbing and such. So what am I doing wrong? -- Please use reply-all fo

[Bug 10977] Rsync path spoofing attack vulnerability (rsync 3.1.1 tested)

2014-12-31 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10977 Wayne Davison changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #1 from Wayne Davison

Re: Behaviour of --append with modified files

2014-12-31 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Mark Stead wrote: > Is there any option that I've overlooked whereby I can force rsync to > synchronise modified files (in addition to handling appended files). > No, rsync expects you to handle just appended files in --append mode. You should use include/exclud

Re: Modification time error

2014-12-31 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote: > /tmp was actually on a tmpfs and no idea why this happens Thanks for pointing that out. I couldn't reproduce the issue until I ran the tests on a tmpfs mount, and discovered that rsync is optimizing away a utimensat() call if it thinks that

Re: Modification time error

2014-12-31 Thread Ingo Brückl
/tmp was actually on a tmpfs and no idea why this happens, but it doesn't seem to be a rsync issue (though it's kinda scary). This "fixes" it: diff -Nur a/testsuite/compare-dest.test b/testsuite/compare-dest.test --- a/testsuite/compare-dest.test 2007-09-03 22:43:58.0 +0200 +++ b/tes