Got rid of some code from writefd_unbuffered() that was only needed

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -8,8 +8,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       escaped characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is
       output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
       is now output as "\\".  Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
-      should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable, as
-      appropriate.
+      can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
+
+    - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+      output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
+      status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
+      this under the same conditions when pushing files).  This was changed
+      to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior:  we
+      now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
+      exit with the appropriate exit status.
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
@@ -37,15 +44,15 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
       newline.
 
-    - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
-      to it as a "file".
+    - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
+      as a "directory", not a "file".
 
     - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
       generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
       the file by the destination filename.
 
     - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
-      generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
+      generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
 
     - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
       to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
@@ -58,6 +65,22 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
     - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
       sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
 
+    - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
+      trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
+
+    - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
+      handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
+
+    - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
+      --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
+      slash.
+
+    - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
+
+    - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
+      the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
+      messages.  (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
@@ -80,12 +103,28 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       really did expect the socket to close).
 
     - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
-      back to using syslog.  This is better than a (typically) totally
-      silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
+      back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning).  This is
+      better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a
+      daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
+      necessary to see the error on stderr).
+
+    - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
+      to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
+
+    - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
+      support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
+      when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
+      other similar options being added at some point).
 
   INTERNAL:
 
-    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").
+    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
+      discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
+
+    - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
+
+    - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
+      someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
 
   BUILD CHANGES:
 
@@ -100,3 +139,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
     - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
       the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
       presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
+
+    - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
+
+    - Added a couple new diffs to the patches dir.