a problem I'm having with rsync-4.5.4

Wayne Davison wayned at users.sourceforge.net
Tue May 7 18:14:02 EST 2002


On Tue, 7 May 2002, Wayne Davison wrote:
> I think this statement in the man page is actually false:
> 
>   if the pattern starts with a / then it is matched against the start of
>   the filename, otherwise it is matched against the end of the filename.

Of course, immediately after I send this, I discover that the
non-wildcard-matching code is, in fact, trying to do this that way.
Looks like my previous man-page tweak is not correct.  Sorry -- I'll try
to work up something better (like fixing the fnmatch() code).

..wayne..





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