Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SpecialFileError...AF_UNIX path too long

[Joe Steele]

On 10/30/2013 1:59 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 23:38:43 -0400
> Joe Steele <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Joe> I created a patch to fix this problem 4+ years ago.  It can be
> Joe> found attached to this bug report:
>
> Joe> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?26847
>
> By the way, what do you gain by writing
>
> rpath.conn.os.mknod(rpath.path, stat.S_IFSOCK)
>
> instead of just
>
> os.mknod(rpath.path, stat.S_IFSOCK)
>
> ?
>
> To me the longer version seems to _lose_ some clarity.

Agreed -- 'os.mknod(rpath.path, stat.S_IFSOCK)' is simpler and 
works the same.  After 4 years, I have no idea what I was 
thinking when I wrote it the other way.  Maybe I was trying to 
carry on the tradition of making the inner workings of 
rdiff-backup difficult to comprehend?  :)

--Joe