-NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005)
Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.4:
is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
- - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+ - 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
rsyncd.conf file.
- Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
- that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
+ (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash).
- - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
- permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
+ - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the
+ write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this
+ only caused an annoying warning message).
- If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
- 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
+ - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when
--relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
slash.
the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
messages. (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
- - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been
- specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the
- destination).
+ - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if
+ "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent
+ dir of the destination).
- If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
"deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
- Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
- for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST.
+ for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for
+ compatibility with OS variations).
ENHANCEMENTS:
the checksum data for a large file.
- Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
- some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
- password mismatch, etc.). (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
+ some information on why the authorization failed: wrong user,
+ password mismatch, etc. (The client-visible message is unchanged!)
- Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
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 (and log an appropriate warning). This is
- better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a
+ back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning. This is better
+ than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) 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.
+ instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process 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
INTERNAL:
- - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
- discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
+ - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). This enables isprint() to
+ better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in
+ messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some
+ locales).
- Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
- - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
+ - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help
someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
BUILD CHANGES:
- - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
- rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+ - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of
+ setlocale() in the binary.
- - Only define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
+ - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented
+ rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
- - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+ - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
- Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
+ - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell
+ (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release.
+
- Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
- - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
- enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
+ - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch
+ that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.