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

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
 
     - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
-      output an "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
+      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
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ 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
@@ -103,8 +103,10 @@ 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.
@@ -116,9 +118,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
 
   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 logfile-open/-reopen/-close functions.
+    - 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.