rsync - Apr 2012 - [Bug 8885] New: Certain directory name results in a strange file being created

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8885

           Summary: Certain directory name results in a strange file being
                    created
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.0.8
          Platform: x64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: sheridan at sheridan.hu
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


Dear All,

The following command results in a file named ".--.Bug6lt" being
created in the
parent directory of "/FTPDATA/-- SYSTEM" (namely, it will be
:"/FTPDATA/.--.Bug6lt")

The file seems to be the original file in every sense except for the name.

Command to reproduce:

/bin/nice ionice -c 2 -n 7 /usr/bin/rsync -va --super --numeric-ids --stats
--progress --no-D --ignore-errors -e "ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa"
/SERVERDATA/FILES/MUNKA/sheridan.tar.bz2.gpg root at
rsync.mysite.hu:/FTPDATA/--\
SYSTEM/

Os: Latest Fedora 16, fully updated with the stable updates, (ie. not the
testing repo).

Regards,

Levente Peres

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8885

Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> ---
Your destination path has a space in it, which you must either quote or escape
enough in the local shell that the remote shell gets the right name, or you can
use the --protect-args (-s) option to tell rsync that you want it to preserve
the spaces for you.  I can see that would cause rsync to change the destination
path to end at a "--" name, so I'm not sure how the extra dot and
suffix got
there, but I imagine the reason to be related to the above.

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