Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem with incorrect file owners

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Dec 15, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Александр Бойков wrote:
> Please, accept this patch, which checks for incorrect file owners:
>
> !                       if (uid < 65535) and (gid < 65535):
> !                         os.chown(self.path, uid, gid)
>                 self.data['uid'] = uid
>                 self.data['gid'] = gid
>
>
> Without this patch rdiff-backup crashes on this files:
>
> srv18 s # ls -la
> ...
> prwsrws--- 1   10516750          256      0 Jan  1  1970  
> table_row_props.gif
> crw---S--- 1 3414740985    226526504 0, 115 Sep  6  1944

Hi,

Actually, this is a bug in Python. My fix was accepted in Python 2.5.3  
and above.

You can see the Python bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue1747858
And the rdiff-backup report which prompted it: 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?17851


But thanks for posting about it -- I went back to the Python sources  
and noticed that there are two other cases which need to be patched as  
well (lchown and fchown).


regards,
Andrew