[PATCH] One more -x to not traverse cyclic bind-mounts

[Jeff Hansen]

On 01/19/2011 12:52 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:40 -0700, Jeff Hansen wrote:
>> The way rsync determines if the directory is a mount point looks very
>> portable to me (with the FLAG_TOP_DIR bit), and with this patch, it
>> has worked on every Linux system I've tried so far (not sure if
>> FLAG_TOP_DIR works on BSDs, but I'm guessing it does).
> FLAG_TOP_DIR has nothing whatsoever to do with mount points.  Try the
> following test:
>
> $ mkdir -p src/foo
> $ rsync -axxx src/ dest/
>
> You'll find that your patch excludes "src/foo", which is on the same
> filesystem as "src".
>

OK, you're right.  I'll keep looking for a correct, portable way to 
detect bind-ish mounts.

-Jeff


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