rsync - Feb 2005 - [Bug 2389] New: block/character devices on Solaris yield wacky rsync stats

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2389

           Summary: block/character devices on Solaris yield wacky rsync
                    stats
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.4
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: woodd@deshaw.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


The problem is easy to re-produce:

bsqa1.nyc:/tmp/rsync/test # ls -al foo
crw-r-----   1 root     sys       85,16554 Oct  6  2003 foo
bsqa1.nyc:/tmp/rsync/test # /tmp/rsync/bin/rsync --archive -v /tmp/rsync/test/
master:/tmp/rsync/test/
building file list ... done
./
foo

sent 89 bytes  received 32 bytes  80.67 bytes/sec
total size is 2147483647  speedup is 17747798.74

Notice the absurdly large "total size".  According to the Solaris
stat() man page:

     st_size
           For regular files, this is the address of the  end  of
           the file. For block special or character special, this
           is not defined. See also pipe(2).

I'll attach a patch I've been using for a while now; basically, I wrap
stat()
and set st_size to zero for block/character devices.  David

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