Allow --temp-dir to be specified with --daemon to set the default.
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1NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
2Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
3Changes since 2.6.6:
4
5 BUG FIXES:
6
7 - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
8
9 - If a device changed permissions, rsync no longer recreates the device
10 instead of just updating the permissions.
11
12 - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
13 we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
14 hostspec as a filename.
15
16 - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
17 permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
18 the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
19
20 ENHANCEMENTS:
21
22 - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
23 that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
24 files).
25
26 - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
27 preservation of attributes on symlinks.
28
29 - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
30 and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
31 per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
32 transfer.
33
34 - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
35 the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
36 should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
37 rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
38 replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
39 dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
40
41 - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
42 unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
43 "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
44 file ownership that is implied by -a.
45
46 INTERNAL:
47
48 - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
49 MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
50
51 - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
52 with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.