Note rsyncd-over-ssh and documentation TODOs.

[rsync/rsync.git] / TODO

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@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@ Performance
 
 IPv6
 
+  Implement suggestions from http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/
+  and ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/RFC/rfc2553.txt
+
+  If a host has multiple addresses, then listen try to connect to all
+  in order until we get through.  (getaddrinfo may return multiple
+  addresses.)  This is kind of implemented already.
+
+  Possibly also when starting as a server we may need to listen on
+  multiple passive addresses.  This might be a bit harder, because we
+  may need to select on all of them.  Hm.
+
   Define a syntax for IPv6 literal addresses.  Since they include
   colons, they tend to break most naming systems, including ours.
   Based on the HTTP IPv6 syntax, I think we should use
@@ -61,6 +72,35 @@ Errors
   eof" give a message that is more detailed if possible and also more
   helpful.  
 
+File attributes
+
+  Device major/minor numbers should be at least 32 bits each.  See
+  http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-November/005357.html
+
+  Transfer ACLs.  Need to think of a standard representation.
+  Probably better not to even try to convert between NT and POSIX.
+  Possibly can share some code with Samba.
+
+Empty directories
+
+  With the current common --include '*/' --exclude '*' pattern, people
+  can end up with many empty directories.  We might avoid this by
+  lazily creating such directories.
+
+zlib
+
+  Perhaps don't use our own zlib.  Will we actually be incompatible,
+  or just be slightly less efficient?
+
+logging
+
+  Perhaps flush stdout after each filename, so that people trying to
+  monitor progress in a log file can do so more easily.  See
+  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=48108
+
+rsyncd over ssh
+
+  There are already some patches to do this.
 
 PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -77,6 +117,10 @@ Win32
   we are correct to call close(), because shutdown() discards
   untransmitted data.
 
+DOCUMENTATION --------------------------------------------------------
+
+Update README
+
 BUILD FARM -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 Add machines
@@ -91,6 +135,10 @@ Add machines
 
 NICE -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
+SIGHUP
+
+  Re-read config file (just exec() ourselves) rather than exiting.
+
 --no-detach and --no-fork options
 
   Very useful for debugging.  Also good when running under a