bogus hardlinks bug?

g gmott at ntlworld.com
Sat Nov 29 17:33:09 EST 2003


dear rsyncists,

rsync is superb!

but did i actually find a bug?

i did:
$  rsync -vRHSPa rsync://rsync.mirror.ac.uk/updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS .
into an empty local directory

the result was 140 bogus hardlinks of the same file:
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 Canna-3.5b2-62.7.3.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 LPRng-3.8.9-4.1.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 WindowMaker-0.80.0-9.3.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.3.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.23.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 apache-1.3.27-3.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 arts-1.0.5a-0.73.0.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 balsa-1.2.4-7.7.3.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 bind-9.2.1-1.7x.2.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  140 g        g         6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 cups-1.1.14-15.4.src.rpm
...

i repeated the command without the "H" and it was hunky dory.

$  rpm -q rsync
rsync-2.5.5-4
$  rsync --version
rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
              IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

redhat 9 with all up2dates.

thank you,
g




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