Warning: filtering by file listing meets a bug that may lead some specified file not to be part of your backups

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Hi,

if you use -[ option with dar to define the set of file to backup
based on a file listing, be aware that a bug in libdar leads some
files not to be included in the backup as they ought to be. There is
not specific pattern of files subject to this lookup failure. The
problem also concern exclusion by files (-] option) here you will not
miss data in your backups but rather will find some extra files.

The occurrence of such lookup failure strongly depends on the nature
of the listing, a raw estimation gives a probability of 0.006 for a
file to be missed in the lookup.

This impacts all releases up to the latest 2.5.10.

A fix for this bug is already available in GIT on branch_2.5.x and
will be available in a few days with release 2.5.11.

for those that cannot wait a couple of days, the 2.5.10RC4 tarball
includes that fix and is available with its associated signature at
ftp://ftp.dm3c.org/dar.linux.free.fr/Interim_releases

Regards,
Denis
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