[Bug 3198] rsyncing a file to a dest path where dirname(path) is a file quietly fails

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3198





------- Additional Comments From hashproduct at verizon.net  2005-10-20 13:37 -------
A side note in case anyone is interested:

My custom rsync, in order to observe default ACLs correctly, needed a change to
the behavior of "get_local_name".  Even if only a single source file is being
transferred to a single destination file, the receiving rsync changes into the
directory of the destination file.  (In fact, I found the idea of "local names"
so confusing that I rewrote "get_local_name", adding additional comments and
verbose output.)

A side effect of the change is that, on my rsync, "rsync -v foo bar/cuz" will
fail during file selection as it should.  It says:
    rsync: push_dir#2.5 "/path/to/bar/cuz" failed: No such file or directory (2)
    rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(498)
    rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
    rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434)
(I just realized that while the attempted push_dir is correct, the path in the
error message is wrong: it should be "/path/to/bar".  I'll fix this.)

My rsync is available here:
    http://mysite.verizon.net/hashproduct/myrsync/

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