Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude-sockets not working (Mac OS X)

[Andrew Ferguson]

Ilari Scheinin wrote:
>>> I am running rdiff-backup with the --exclude-sockets option, but I am
>>> still getting this kind of error for every socket:
>>> ListError private/var/launchd/0/sock [Errno 1] Operation not
>>> permitted: '/private/var/launchd/0/sock'
> 
>> Good catch! If the user had extended attributes support enabled (as  
>> you
>> did), rdiff-backup tried to read/set the extended attributes on the
>> socket. However, sockets don't have extended attributes on Mac OS X or
>> Linux and this attempt generates an error. I have patched this in CVS
>> and the fix will be in the next release of rdiff-backup.
> 
> I believe that the same thing is still happening with fifos. I have -- 
> exclude-fifos, but still get:

This is now fixed in CVS and will be in version 1.1.11.

Andrew

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