[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #24815] Escaping double colons in local files doesn't seem to work

[Pedro DeRose]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?24815>

                 Summary: Escaping double colons in local files doesn't seem
to work
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: dedrop
            Submitted on: Tue 11 Nov 2008 05:35:16 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Backing up directories whose paths contain double colons doesn't seem to
work, even when escaping the colons as described in the man page. Here's a
simple test case on Linux, in the bash shell:

# mkdir "foo::bar"
# mkdir "foo::bar/dir"
# echo "hi" > "foo::bar/dir/foo.txt"

# rdiff-backup "foo\::bar/dir" "foo\::bar/backup"
Fatal Error: Unable to create directory foo\::bar/backup

# rdiff-backup "foo\::bar/dir" "foo\::backup"
Fatal Error: Source directory foo\::bar/dir does not exist

# ls
foo\::backup foo::bar


Looks like rdiff-backup is not treating \: as an escaped colon, but rather as
a literal slash-then-colon. Of course, using a double colon without escaping
doesn't work either, as rdiff-backup tries to treat the text before the colons
as a host.





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