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Number   :  10577
Date     :  2005-02-21
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: Maybe Related?
Size(KB) :  1


DES wrote:

>
> The recent discovery of the extentionless file exclusion
> bug brought me back to DPE.DUS. Perhaps you remember?

The exclusion (/X:) and inclusion bugs (/IN:) that I mentioned
was specifically with the case where the specifier ends with
the "*." pattern (that is treated as if the pattern ends
with "*"). But, we are not aware of other problems.



> //Exclusions--------------
>
> /X:Dpe.dus
> /X:Thumbs.db



> That DPE.DUS file exists only on the Remote Source.
> No possible version of specifying it's exclusion will
> actually exclude it?

If the dpe.dus file is in the destination directory
and it does not exist in the source directory, then,
the /X:dpe.dus switch has no effect at all. This
is a feature. Although we heard many people saying
that the /X: switch should have effects on the
destination directory, we have not done so (arguably
with some justification).

> The exclusion works fine when the Source is Local
> and the Destination is Remote.

Let us keep ourselves focused on whether the file is
in the source directory or in the destination directory.
XXCOPY's exclusion (or inclusion operation) is not
sensitive whether the directory is remote or local
(we are not aware of exclude/include bugs that is
sensitive to the remote/local issue).

The /X: feature has no effects on the contents of
the destination directory whether it is local or
remote. If you make the remote volume the source
directory in an XXCOPY command, /X: will have its
effect on the source.

The bugs I was talking about was the rare instance
of the pattern that ends with "*." which is a funny
way of saying in Microsoft's world that the pattern
does not have any DOT in the pattern. Again, I'm
not aware of this issue to be related to the
remote/local situation.

Kan Yabumoto



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