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NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.3:

  BUG FIXES:

    - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
      was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
      file).

    - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
      that already exists in the --backup-dir.

    - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
      setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
      mkstemp().

    - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
      FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
      necessary.

    - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.

    - One fork() call needed to check for and handle a failure.

  ENHANCEMENTS:

    - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
      use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.

    - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir).

    - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
      so that they can't be mixed together.  This makes it impossible for a
      user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
      could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.

    - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
      to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
      that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.

    - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
      file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
      partial file.

  BUILD CHANGES:

    - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
Commit	Line	Data
ac1541f4 WD	1	NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
	2	Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
	3	Changes since 2.6.3:
	4
	5	BUG FIXES:
	6
	7	- Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
	8	was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
	9	file).
	10
1ed55e3e WD	11	- Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
	12	that already exists in the --backup-dir.
	13
ac1541f4 WD	14	- An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
	15	setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
	16	mkstemp().
	17
	18	- We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
	19	FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
	20	necessary.
	21
740bab94 WD	22	- Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
740bab94 WD	23
5d54f339 WD	24	- One fork() call needed to check for and handle a failure.
5d54f339 WD	25
ac1541f4 WD	26	ENHANCEMENTS:
ac1541f4 WD	27
8f1b4f36 WD	28	- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
	29	use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
	30
87ba7282 WD	31	- Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir).
87ba7282 WD	32
18ea5dc0 WD	33	- The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
	34	so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a
	35	user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
	36	could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.
	37
8f1b4f36 WD	38	- The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
	39	to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
	40	that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
	41
ac1541f4 WD	42	- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
	43	file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
	44	partial file.
	45
	46	BUILD CHANGES:
	47
87ba7282	48	- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().