A perl script to effect an atomic transfer of a set of files.
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1NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
2Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
3Changes since 2.6.3:
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5 BUG FIXES:
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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).
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11 - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
12 that already exists in the --backup-dir.
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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
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16 mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
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18 - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
19 the sender, and the file-list is large.
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21 - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
22 FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
23 necessary.
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25 - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
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22f5bd5e 27 - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
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29 - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
30 that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
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32 - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
33 referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
34 user and group of a symlink.
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36 ENHANCEMENTS:
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38 - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
39 use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
40
7a1b73b9 41 - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
c3131af9 42 that it includes copies of identical files.
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44 - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
45 --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
c3131af9 46 patches dir and enhanced.)
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c3131af9 48 - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
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18ea5dc0 50 - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
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51 so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
52 start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
53 cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
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55 - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
56 to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
57 that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
58
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59 - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
60 the patches dir.)
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62 - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
63 file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
64 partial file.
65
66 BUILD CHANGES:
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87ba7282 68 - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().