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Re: rsync horribly broken
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:01:40AM -0800, linda w wrote:
>If that's the case, how did rsync generate the list of files to copy?
>Why would rsync not be able to read them but cp would? Seems like an
>odd restriction "rsync can read and compare network paths, but can't
>actually open the paths to copy them because it can't understand the
>paths that it created through it's own iteration.
Because it doesn't really understand the // prefix, as I said. It
probably "optimizes" multiple slashes to one slash at some point in
its filename manipulation.
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