- * When -x (--one-file-system) is combined with -L (--copy-links)
- or --copy-unsafe-links, no symlinked files are skipped, even
- if the referant file is on a different filesystem.
-
- * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user
- when the UIDs of the source and destination differ and -o was
- specified, and when the group of the source can't be used on
- the destination and -g was specified. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed a bug in the handling of -H (hard-links) that might
- cause the expanded PATH/NAME value of the current item to
- get overwritten (due to an expanded-name caching bug).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * We now reset the "new data has been sent" flag at the start
- of each file we send. This makes sure that an interrupted
- transfer with the --partial option set doesn't keep a shorter
- temp file than the current basis file when no new data has been
- transfered over the wire for that file. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed a byte-order problem in --batch-mode on big-endian
- machines. (Jay Fenlason)
-
- * Fixed configure bug when running "./configure --disable-ipv6".
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir.
-
- * When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a
- directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one
- directory (and not all following directories too).
-
- * When transferring a file that has group 0 with -g specified
- (typically via -a) and not enough privs to retain the group,
- rsync no longer complains about "chown" failing.
-
- * When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER
- part can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@'
- is used to find the HOST, not the first).
-
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of group IDs for non-root
- users: (1) It properly handles a group that the sender didn't
- have a name for (it would previously skip changing the group
- on any files in that group). (2) If --numeric-ids is used,
- rsync no longer attempts to set groups that the user doesn't
- have the permission to set.
-
- * Fixed the "refuse options" setting in the rsyncd.conf file.
-
- * Rsync no longer discards a double-slash at the start of a filename
- when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names
- that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied both).
-
- * Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with
- sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len).
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty
- large speedup when running under MS Windows. (Craig Barratt)
-
- * Optimizations to the name-handling/comparing code have made
- some significant reductions in user-CPU time for large file
- sets. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Some variable-type cleanup that makes the code more consistent.
- (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Reduced memory requirements of hard link preservation.
- (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Implemented a new algorithm for hard-link handling that speeds
- up the code significantly. (J.W. Schultz and Wayne Davison)
-
- * The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the
- group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This
- prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new
- hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabetically
- earlier in the list than the files that are already present on the
- receiving side.
-
- * Dropped support for protocol versions less than 20
- (2.3.0 released 15 Mar 1999) and activated warnings for
- protocols less than 25 (2.5.0 released 23 Aug 2001)
- (Wayne Davison and J.W. Schultz, severally)
-
- * More optimal data transmission for --hard-links (protocol 28).
-
- * More optimal data transmission for --checksum (protocol 28).
-
- * Less memory is used when --checksum is specified.
-
- * Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings).
-
- * Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use
- allocation pools. This reduces memory use for large
- filesets and permits freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
- (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe
- and the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to
- have the "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing
- messages from the receiver don't get lost on their way through
- the generator over to the sender (the latter mainly affected
- hard-link messages). (Wayne Davison)
-
- * The reading & writing of the file list in batch-mode is now
- handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over
- the wire. This makes it much easier to maintain.
-
- * Optimized the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any
- mount-point directories we encounter (it no longer scans the
- contents of the mount-point dirs, just to throw away the data).
-
- * Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and
- a little more optimized.
-
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since 2.5.7: