rsync: recv_generator: mkdir error with folder ending with space

[RICQ David]

Hi,
I notice what rsync is not able to copy folder which ending with space :

Example which not working :
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/var/Janji feat. T.R. " failed: Invalid argument (22)
*** Skipping any contents from this failed directory ***

If I remove space at the end, it works.

mkdir can create folder with space at the end.

rsync version 3.1.0 protocol version 31

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

I'll mark this old bug as fix released because I can't reproduce it on 20.04 (3.1.3) nor 22.04 (rsync 3.2.7). Here's how I tested it on 20.04:

# rsync --version
rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31
...

# mkdir -p "src/a " dst

# rsync -aiv src/ dst/
sending incremental file list
.d..t...... ./
cd+++++++++ a /

sent 73 bytes received 23 bytes 192.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00

# ls -l dst/
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2 Mar 8 00:30 'a '

[RICQ David (davidricq87)]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

I don't remember the context but maybe the destination was a FAT32 device.
And FAT32 doesn't support folder ending with space.

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

Interesting! If your recollection is accurate then I unfortunately don't see how rsync could workaround that FAT32 limitation :/

[RICQ David (davidricq87)]

Yes, I understand. I would just confirm it was not a rsync bug but just a FAT32 feature.