/home/<user>/.gvfs causing problems for rsync

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 20:35 +1000, Res wrote:
> > as it won't address the actual problem at all. Perl will not report
> > "errors and types of errors" any better or worse than bash will.
> 
> that depends on how messy you want it and how proficient you are at perl, 

The problem isn't messiness, though. If it was, perl might indeed be the
answer.

However, the problem is that under some circumstances, rsync doesn't
delete files on the receiving end that it should delete. It doesn't
matter what you wrap rsync in, whether perl, bash or something else. The
problem will remain.

It would be different if a perl wrapper could offer *additional*
information about what was going wrong, but it can't. In this context,
perl is a needless additional complexity.

Once everything is working - or at least, once the problem is understood
and a workaround found - perl might be the right wrapper, for any number
of reasons.

Regards, K.

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