public inbox for nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.ru
Atom feed

* nncp-file on directory fails when directory contains symlinks
@ 2022-01-25 13:58 John Goerzen
  2022-01-25 18:36 ` Sergey Matveev
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: John Goerzen @ 2022-01-25 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: nncp-devel

Hi,

Today I was trying:

nncp-file /bin dest:

I'd get:

2022-01-25T13:57:32Z File /bin (0 B) sent to dest:bin.tar

And nothing would be transmitted.  Other directories worked.

I discovered the reason: the presence of even one symlink in a directory
caused the operation to fail; a file would be left in the tmp directory
and nothing would be sent.

Thanks,

John

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread

• * Re: nncp-file on directory fails when directory contains symlinks
    2022-01-25 13:58 nncp-file on directory fails when directory contains symlinks John Goerzen
  @ 2022-01-25 18:36 ` Sergey Matveev
    0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
  From: Sergey Matveev @ 2022-01-25 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: nncp-devel
  
  [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 808 bytes --]
  
  Greetings!
  
  *** John Goerzen [2022-01-25 07:58]:
  >I discovered the reason: the presence of even one symlink in a directory
  >caused the operation to fail; a file would be left in the tmp directory
  >and nothing would be sent.
  
  Thanks for the bug report! Indeed the error variable was shadowed,
  so it was not even reported to the user. I also skip any non-regular
  file during that pax-archive creation. Only directories and regular
  files will be included. If someone wants any other type of files,
  keeping permissions, ownership, ACLs, flags, hardlinks, xattrs, etc,
  then external tar invocation must be used (that is less a problem now
  because of streaming encrypted packets format).
  
  -- 
  Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)
  OpenPGP: CF60 E89A 5923 1E76 E263  6422 AE1A 8109 E498 57EF
  
  [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
  [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]
  
  ^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2022-01-25 18:36 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2022-01-25 13:58 nncp-file on directory fails when directory contains symlinks John Goerzen
2022-01-25 18:36 ` Sergey Matveev