- Added a test to see if chown() follows symlinks.
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1NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
2Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
3Changes 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
11 - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
12 that already exists in the --backup-dir.
13
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(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
17
18 - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
19 the sender, and the file-list is large.
20
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.
24
25 - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
26
27 - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
28
29 - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
30 that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
31
32 - If the OS does not have lchown(), we no longer try to set the user
33 & group of a symlink (which would either fail or set the referent).
34
35 ENHANCEMENTS:
36
37 - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
38 use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
39
40 - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
41 that it includes copies of identical files.
42
43 - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
44 --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
45 patches dir and enhanced.)
46
47 - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
48
49 - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
50 so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
51 start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
52 cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
53
54 - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
55 to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
56 that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
57
58 - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
59 the patches dir.)
60
61 - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
62 file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
63 partial file.
64
65 BUILD CHANGES:
66
67 - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().