- * Detect and report when open or opendir succeed but read and
- readdir fail caused by network filesystems issues and truncated
- files. (David Norwood, Michael Brown, J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Added a fix that should give ssh time to restore the tty settings
- if the user presses Ctrl-C at an ssh password prompt.
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
- lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
- Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
- we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
-
-NEWS for rsync version 2.5.7:
-Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
-Changes since version 2.5.6:
-
- SECURITY:
-
- * Fix buffer handling bugs. (Andrew Tridgell, Martin Pool, Paul
- Russell, Andrea Barisani)
+ - When --dry-run (-n) is used and the destination directory does not
+ exist, rsync now produces a correct report of files that would be
+ sent instead of dying with a chdir() error.