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3 | URGENT --------------------------------------------------------------- |
4 | ||
33d213bb MP |
5 | |
6 | IMPORTANT ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
7 | ||
8 | Cross-test versions | |
9 | ||
10 | Part of the regression suite should be making sure that we don't | |
11 | break backwards compatibility: old clients vs new servers and so | |
12 | on. Ideally we would test the cross product of versions. | |
13 | ||
14 | It might be sufficient to test downloads from well-known public | |
15 | rsync servers running different versions of rsync. This will give | |
16 | some testing and also be the most common case for having different | |
17 | versions and not being able to upgrade. | |
18 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
19 | use chroot |
20 | ||
21 | If the platform doesn't support it, then don't even try. | |
22 | ||
23 | If running as non-root, then don't fail, just give a warning. | |
24 | (There was a thread about this a while ago?) | |
25 | ||
26 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-August/thread.html | |
27 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-September/thread.html | |
28 | ||
29 | --files-from | |
30 | ||
31 | Avoids traversal. Better option than a pile of --include statements | |
32 | for people who want to generate the file list using a find(1) | |
33 | command or a script. | |
34 | ||
35 | Performance | |
36 | ||
37 | Traverse just one directory at a time. Tridge says it's possible. | |
38 | ||
39 | Can possibly also be smarter about memory use while looking for hard | |
40 | links by reducing the refcount as we find alternative names. | |
41 | ||
42 | IPv6 | |
43 | ||
44 | Define a syntax for IPv6 literal addresses. Since they include | |
45 | colons, they tend to break most naming systems, including ours. | |
46 | Based on the HTTP IPv6 syntax, I think we should use | |
47 | ||
48 | rsync://[::1]/foo/bar | |
49 | [::1]::bar | |
50 | ||
51 | which should just take a small change to the parser code. | |
52 | ||
5aafd07b MP |
53 | Errors |
54 | ||
55 | If we hang or get SIGINT, then explain where we were up to. Perhaps | |
56 | have a static buffer that contains the current function name, or | |
57 | some kind of description of what we were trying to do. This is a | |
58 | little easier on people than needing to run strace/truss. | |
59 | ||
60 | "The dungeon collapses! You are killed." Rather than "unexpected | |
61 | eof" give a message that is more detailed if possible and also more | |
62 | helpful. | |
63 | ||
5575de14 MP |
64 | File attributes |
65 | ||
66 | Device major/minor numbers should be at least 32 bits each. See | |
67 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-November/005357.html | |
68 | ||
69 | Transfer ACLs. Need to think of a standard representation. | |
70 | Probably better not to even try to convert between NT and POSIX. | |
71 | Possibly can share some code with Samba. | |
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28a69e25 MP |
73 | Empty directories |
74 | ||
75 | With the current common --include '*/' --exclude '*' pattern, people | |
76 | can end up with many empty directories. We might avoid this by | |
77 | lazily creating such directories. | |
78 | ||
79 | zlib | |
80 | ||
81 | Perhaps don't use our own zlib. Will we actually be incompatible, | |
82 | or just be slightly less efficient? | |
83 | ||
84 | logging | |
85 | ||
86 | Perhaps flush stdout after each filename, so that people trying to | |
87 | monitor progress in a log file can do so more easily. See | |
88 | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=48108 | |
89 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
90 | PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------ |
91 | ||
92 | Win32 | |
93 | ||
94 | Don't detach, because this messes up --srvany. | |
95 | ||
96 | http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00234.html | |
97 | ||
98 | According to "Effective TCP/IP Programming" (??) close() on a socket | |
99 | has incorrect behaviour on Windows -- it sends a RST packet to the | |
100 | other side, which gives a "connection reset by peer" error. On that | |
101 | platform we should probably do shutdown() instead. However, on Unix | |
102 | we are correct to call close(), because shutdown() discards | |
103 | untransmitted data. | |
104 | ||
105 | BUILD FARM ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
106 | ||
107 | Add machines | |
108 | ||
109 | AMDAHL UTS (Dave Dykstra) | |
110 | ||
111 | Cygwin (on different versions of Win32?) | |
112 | ||
113 | HP-UX variants (via HP?) | |
33d213bb | 114 | |
5aafd07b MP |
115 | SCO |
116 | ||
46ef7d1d MP |
117 | NICE ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
118 | ||
71b3374b MP |
119 | SIGHUP |
120 | ||
121 | Re-read config file (just exec() ourselves) rather than exiting. | |
122 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
123 | --no-detach and --no-fork options |
124 | ||
125 | Very useful for debugging. Also good when running under a | |
126 | daemon-monitoring process that tries to restart the service when the | |
127 | parent exits. | |
128 | ||
129 | hang/timeout friendliness | |
130 | ||
131 | On | |
132 | ||
133 | internationalization | |
134 | ||
135 | Change to using gettext(). Probably need to ship this for platforms | |
136 | that don't have it. | |
137 | ||
138 | Solicit translations. | |
139 | ||
140 | Does anyone care? | |
141 | ||
46ef7d1d MP |
142 | rsyncsh |
143 | ||
144 | Write a small emulation of interactive ftp as a Pythonn program | |
145 | that calls rsync. Commands such as "cd", "ls", "ls *.c" etc map | |
146 | fairly directly into rsync commands: it just needs to remember the | |
147 | current host, directory and so on. We can probably even do | |
148 | completion of remote filenames. | |
149 |