From: Ron Y. <rm...@ti...> - 2008-11-18 19:28:55
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Nikolaus Rath <Nik...@ra...> wrote: >I would believe that similar problems arise with many other backup >programs, because the assumption that one can stat() everything in a >directorywith at worst getting a "file not found" seems very >reasonable. Indeed, I had problems using rsync to back up /home after Gnome introduced the ~/.gvfs mountpoint. >Therefore I'd argue in favor of returning something useful. IMO root >should at least be able to find out that the entry corresponds to a >directory. So what about returning the properties of the original >directory, before it became a mountpoint? Agreed, just pretending that the directory is empty would solve the problem. Ron |