On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:20:30PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > I noticed that rsync is happy to hard-link a device node from a > --link-dest dir even if its mtime differs from that of the source > device node and --times is given. Is this behavior expected?
Not really. It doesn't hurt anything with devices, but we should obey the general rule only linking things don't differ in attributes that we are preserving. The code in unchanged_attrs() was expecting that the mtime would have been compared in the unchanged_file() routine, but that assumption is not true for some of the code paths that ended up using the routine. The latest CVS makes unchanged_attrs() ensure that the mtime is the same. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
