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Description of problem: File names that start with "." and end with a different "." followed by exactly 6 non-periods are skipped Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hardlink-1.0-22 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. hardlink -v foo 2. 3. Actual results: Skipping foo/google-chrome/.com.google.Chrome.y7Yk64 Skipping foo/google-chrome/Default/.com.google.Chrome.PoAF6r Skipping foo/selinux/targeted/.policy.sha512 ... Expected results: Files matching pattern should be eligible for hardlinking. Additional info: There is explicit code to skip dot files that have more than one dot and a 6-character extension. This should either be removed from the code, or explained in the man page and/or made optional. It's such a bizarre thing that it must have served a purpose at one point, though I can't imagine what that was. At least it does print a message that the file(s) were skipped if the -v flag is given. q = strrchr (di->d_name, '.'); if (q && strlen (q) == 7 && q != di->d_name) { nam1.buf[nam1baselen] = 0; if (verbose) fprintf(stderr, "Skipping %s%s\n", nam1.buf, di->d_name); continue; }
Created attachment 1150503 [details] patch to optionally include dotfiles with six character extension This proposed patch adds a flag to bypass the bizarre default behavior of skipping dotfiles with six character extensions. Chose to do it this way so the the default behavior does not change (in the off chance somebody is doing this on purpose). Applies against current HEAD.
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hardlink-1.3-1.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-db1d0d0f9c
hardlink-1.3-1.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-db1d0d0f9c
hardlink-1.3-1.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.