rsync - Oct 2006 - Not fail if can't set permissions ?

I'm adding files to an existing tree via rsync -aO. Some of the
directories on the remote are owned by a different user. I have
rwx permissions on them but when rsync tries to set the
permissions for those directories, it fails and exits with a
non-zero status.

This is expected but it complicates error detection on my end. Is
there a way to make rsync not consider it an error when chmod()
fails on a directory owned by someone else ? Possibly warn about
it, but still exit with a zero status.

    stat (destpathname, &deststat);
    if ((deststat.st_mode & mask) != (srcstat.st_mode & mask))
    {
	if (chmod (pathname, srcstat.st_mode) != 0)
	{
	    if (errno == EPERM
	      && deststat.st_uid != geteuid ()
	      && option_ignore_non_owner)
	    {
		/* Expected error - just warn about it */
		;
	    }
	    else
	    {
		/* Unexpected error - fail */
		exit_with_non_zero_status = 1;
	    }
	}
    }

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On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:39:55PM +0200, Andre Majorel
wrote:
> there a way to make rsync not consider it an error when chmod()
> fails on a directory owned by someone else ? Possibly warn about
> it, but still exit with a zero status.
There is a diff in the patches dir named omit-dir-changes.diff that adds
the option --omit-dir-changes.  When used, this option will stop rsync
from trying to update the permissions on the directories at all.  That's
not quite what you were asking for, but it would silence the errors.

..wayne..