"/" dir backup

[Jamie Heilman]

Ben Escoto wrote:

> compatible with linux's.  You don't seem to have a 'stat' at all (why
> not?), so I suggest you exclude your device directory ("--exclude

stat is not a standard program in many Linux distributions nor
FreeBSD.  FreeBSD's stat(1) from ports is not compatible with the
invocation in rdiff-backup.  AFAIK it doesn't even exist in NetBSD.
As such, is there any particular reason you don't just use st_rdev and
remove the stat shell call entirely?  Its just as "portable" and
probably faster.  Besides, as it stands I shudder to think what is
going to happen if somebody creates a device with a space in its file
name.

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 for it, before we know there are words, out we come bloodied and squalling
 with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only
 one direction, and time is its only measure."		-Rosencrantz