NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 29 (changed) Changes since 2.6.3: OUTPUT CHANGES: - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. - The --stats output will contain time file-list time statistics if both sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). 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(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.) - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is the sender, and the file-list is large. - 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 place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks that are being copied, even if they point nowhere. - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the user and group of a symlink. - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete. - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a file that was put into the partial-dir. 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 --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except that it includes copies of identical files. - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the patches dir and enhanced.) - 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 to start a daemon that had improper default option values that could cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) 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. - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from the patches dir.) - 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. - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest, --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories without recursion. - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a non-recursive listing). - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory times. - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing). This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older versions. - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer. SUPPORT FILES: - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update. - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored. - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error. - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. INTERNAL: - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over the socket. - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size. BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().