Re: Exclude / Include / Dir -- Additive would be nice!

[On 23 Sep, @ 23:44, Dave wrote in "[hdup-user] Exclude / Include  ..."]
> A couple requests:
> 
> 1) I too ran into the MAXPATHLEN thing (just try excluding your Mozilla Firefox
> Cache directories) -- is there no way to change this other than the source?

not currently. Maybe it's time to move this whole stuff to a linked
list - no more limits...

> 2) Couldn't the Include / Exclude and Dir lines be additive?  (Rather than just
> the last one being used)  This would fix the MAXPATHLEN thing, since it wouldn't
> all be on one line.  It would also be *great* for inheriting!  For example, I
> have to redefine my global excludes inside a server item, because I had to add
> an exclude.

I have trouble parsing this. You want something ala shell scripts,
that you can use '\' to escape the newline?

> 3) Could it be documented in the man page that commas are used for separating
> items on the same line?  I couldn't find what was used to separate it...

Multiple entries on a line must separated by commas: ",".

in hdup.conf (5). It made it stand out a bit more - hope that helps,

> Great product!

thanks!

grtz,
--Miek

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