--link-dest non-optimal without --owner (or when not root)

[jw schultz]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:11:19AM -0400, Stephen Gildea wrote:
> If I run rsync 2.5.6 not as root, so that the -o (--owner) and 
> -g (--group) flags don't work, then files that are not owned by me in
> the source directory will not be linked by --link-dest.
> 
> When rsync looks in my link-dest, it sees a file owned by me.  When it
> compares that with the source file not owned by me, then rsync thinks it
> cannot skip that file, and no hard link results.  However, because I am
> not running rsync as root, the resulting new file is owned by me, same
> as the rejected link-dest file.
> 
> The result is that I have two copies of the file, one in the link-dest
> directory and the other in the destination directory, that are
> identical, that should be linked, but that are not linked.
> 
> Perhaps the "skip file" algorithm in rsync should compare the
> destination file with the user/group that the source file would become,
> not with what it is.

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