Tweaked the O_BINARY code to the latest idiom.
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1NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release
2Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
3Changes since version 2.5.5:
4
5 ENHANCEMENTS:
6
7 * The --delete-after option now implies --delete. (Wayne Davison)
8
9 * The --suffix option can now be used with --backup-dir. (Michael
10 Zimmerman)
11
12 * Combining "::" syntax with the -rsh/-e option now uses the
13 specified remote-shell as a transport to talk to a (newly-spawned)
14 server-daemon. This allows someone to use daemon features, such
15 as modules, over a secure protocol, such as ssh. (JD Paul)
16
17 * The rsync:// syntax for daemon connections is now accepted in the
18 destination field.
19
20 * If the file name given to --include-from or --exclude-from is "-",
21 rsync will read from standard input. (J.W. Schultz)
22
23 * New option --link-dest which is like --compare-dest except that
24 unchanged files are hard-linked in to the destination directory.
25 (J.W. Schultz)
26
27 * Don't report an error if an excluded file disappears during an
28 rsync run. (Eugene Chupriyanov and Bo Kersey)
29
30 * Added .svn to --cvs-exclude list to support subversion. (Jon
31 Middleton)
32
33 * Properly support IPv6 addresses in the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow"
34 and "hosts deny" fields. (Hideaki Yoshifuji)
35
36 * Changed exclude file handling to permit DOS or MAC style line
37 terminations. (J.W. Schultz)
38
39 * Ignore errors from chmod when -p/-a/--preserve-perms is not set.
40 (Dave Dykstra)
41
42 BUG FIXES:
43
44 * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3. (John
45 L. Allen, Martin Pool)
46
47 * Generate each file's rolling-checksum data as we send it, not
48 in a separate (memory-eating) pass before hand. This prevents
49 timeout errors on really large files. (Stefan Nehlsen)
50
51 * Fix compilation on Tru64. (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
52
53 * Better handling of some client-server errors. (Martin Pool)
54
55 * Fixed a crash that would occur when sending a list of files that
56 contains a duplicate name (if it sorts to the end of the file
57 list) and using --delete. (Wayne Davison)
58
59 * Fixed the file-name duplicate-removal code when dealing with multiple
60 dups in a row. (Wayne Davison)
61
62 * Fixed a bug that caused rsync to lose the exit status of its child
63 processes and sometimes return an exit code of 0 instead of showing
64 an error. (David R. Staples, Dave Dykstra)
65
66 * Fixed bug in --copy-unsafe-links that caused it to be completely
67 broken. (Dave Dykstra)
68
69 * Prevent infinite recursion in cleanup code under certain circumstances.
70 (Sviatoslav Sviridov and Marc Espie)
71
72 * Fixed a bug that prevented rsync from creating intervening directories
73 when --relative-paths/-R is set. (Craig Barratt)
74
75 * Prevent "Connection reset by peer" messages from Cygwin. (Randy O'Meara)
76
77 INTERNAL:
78
79 * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. (Martin
80 Pool, Nelson Beebe)
81
82 * Portability fixes. (Dave Dykstra and Wayne Davison)
83
84 * More test cases. (Martin Pool)
85
86 * Some test-case fixes. (Brian Poole, Wayne Davison)
87
88 * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4.
89 (Jos Backus)
90
91 * Updated config.guess and config.sub to latest versions; this
92 means rsync should build on more platforms. (Paul Green)