BUGS ---------------------------------------------------------------
+rsync-url barfs on upload
+
+ rsync foo rsync://localhost/transfer/
+
+ Fix the parser.
+
+
There seems to be a bug with hardlinks
mbp/2 build$ ls -l /tmp/a /tmp/b -i
main/binary-arm/math/
main/binary-arm/misc/
-lchmod
+lchmod
I don't think we handle this properly on systems that don't have the
- call.
+ call. Are there any such?
+Cross-test versions
+ Part of the regression suite should be making sure that we don't
+ break backwards compatibility: old clients vs new servers and so
+ on. Ideally we would test the cross product of versions.
+
+ It might be sufficient to test downloads from well-known public
+ rsync servers running different versions of rsync. This will give
+ some testing and also be the most common case for having different
+ versions and not being able to upgrade.
+
+--no-blocking-io might be broken
+
+ in the same way as --no-whole-file; somebody needs to check.
+
+Do not rely on having a group called "nobody"
+
+ http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.1.0/gLSB/usernames.html
+
+ On Debian it's "nogroup"
+
DAEMON --------------------------------------------------------------
server-imposed bandwidth limits
FEATURES ------------------------------------------------------------
---dry-run is insufficiently dry
+--dry-run is too dry
Mark Santcroos points out that -n fails to list files which have
only metadata changes, though it probably should.
command or a script.
+supplementary groups
+
+ Perhaps allow supplementary groups to be specified in rsyncd.conf;
+ then make the first one the primary gid and all the rest be
+ supplementary gids.
+
+
File list structure in memory
Rather than one big array, perhaps have a tree in memory mirroring
might need a little program to check whether several names refer to
the same file.
-IPv6
+
+Handling IPv6 on old machines
+
+ The KAME IPv6 patch is nice in theory but has proved a bit of a
+ nightmare in practice. The basic idea of their patch is that rsync
+ is rewritten to use the new getaddrinfo()/getnameinfo() interface,
+ rather than gethostbyname()/gethostbyaddr() as in rsync 2.4.6.
+ Systems that don't have the new interface are handled by providing
+ our own implementation in lib/, which is selectively linked in.
+
+ The problem with this is that it is really hard to get right on
+ platforms that have a half-working implementation, so redefining
+ these functions clashes with system headers, and leaving them out
+ breaks. This affects at least OSF/1, RedHat 5, and Cobalt, which
+ are moderately improtant.
+
+ Perhaps the simplest solution would be to have two different files
+ implementing the same interface, and choose either the new or the
+ old API. This is probably necessary for systems that e.g. have
+ IPv6, but gethostbyaddr() can't handle it. The Linux manpage claims
+ this is currently the case.
+
+ In fact, our internal sockets interface (things like
+ open_socket_out(), etc) is much narrower than the getaddrinfo()
+ interface, and so probably simpler to get right. In addition, the
+ old code is known to work well on old machines.
+
+ We could drop the rather large lib/getaddrinfo files.
+
+
+Other IPv6 stuff:
+
Implement suggestions from http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/
and ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/RFC/rfc2553.txt
versions.
+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
+
+ At the connections that just get a list of modules are not logged,
+ but they should be.
+
+ If a child of the rsync daemon dies with a signal, we should notice
+ that when we reap it and log a message.
+
+ Keep stderr and stdout properly separated (Debian #23626)
+
+ After we get the @RSYNCD greeting from the server, we know it's
+ version but we have not yet sent the command line, so we could just
+ remove the -z option if the server is too old.
+
+ For ssh invocation it's not so simple, because we actually use the
+ command line to start the remote process. However, we only actually
+ do compression in token.c, and we could therefore once we discover
+ the remote version emit an error if it's too old. I'm not sure if
+ that's a good tradeoff or not.
+
+
proxy authentication
Allow RSYNC_PROXY to be http://user:pass@proxy.foo:3128/, and do
Add --with-socks, and then perhaps a command-line option to put them
on or off. This might be more reliable than LD_PRELOAD hacks.
+FAT support
+
+ rsync to a FAT partition on a Unix machine doesn't work very well
+ at the moment. I think we get errors about invalid filenames and
+ perhaps also trying to do atomic renames.
+
+ I guess the code to do this is currently #ifdef'd on Windows; perhaps
+ we ought to intelligently fall back to it on Unix too.
+
+
Better statistics:
<Rasmus> mbp: hey, how about an rsync option that just gives you the
the program. For bonus points there would be a test case for the
parser.
+ Possibly also --chown
+
(Debian #23628)
it's not (anymore), throw it out.
-
PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------
Win32
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00234.html
- According to "Effective TCP/IP Programming" (??) close() on a socket
- has incorrect behaviour on Windows -- it sends a RST packet to the
- other side, which gives a "connection reset by peer" error. On that
- platform we should probably do shutdown() instead. However, on Unix
- we are correct to call close(), because shutdown() discards
- untransmitted data.
DEVELOPMENT ----------------------------------------------------------
http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/
+Release script
+
+ Update spec files
+
+ Build tar file; upload
+
+ Send announcement to mailing list and c.o.l.a.
+
+ Make freshmeat announcement
+
+ Update web site
+
+
+
TESTING --------------------------------------------------------------
Cross-test versions
Part of the regression suite should be making sure that we don't
break backwards compatibility: old clients vs new servers and so
- on. Ideally we would test the cross product of versions.
+ on. Ideally we would test both up and down from the current release
+ to all old versions.
+
+ We might need to omit broken old versions, or versions in which
+ particular functionality is broken
It might be sufficient to test downloads from well-known public
rsync servers running different versions of rsync. This will give
some testing and also be the most common case for having different
versions and not being able to upgrade.
+
+Test on kernel source
+
+ Download all versions of kernel; unpack, sync between them. Also
+ sync between uncompressed tarballs. Compare directories after
+ transfer.
+
+ Use local mode; ssh; daemon; --whole-file and --no-whole-file.
+
+ Use awk to pull out the 'speedup' number for each transfer. Make
+ sure it is >= x.
+
+
Test large files
Sparse and non-sparse
Separate makefile target to run rough tests -- or perhaps just run
them every time?
+Test "refuse options" works
+
+ What about for --recursive?
+
+ If you specify an unrecognized option here, you should get an error.
+
DOCUMENTATION --------------------------------------------------------
Update web site from CVS
+
+Perhaps redo manual as SGML
+
+ The man page is getting rather large, and there is more information
+ that ought to be added.
+
+ TexInfo source is probably a dying format.
+
+ Linuxdoc looks like the most likely contender. I know DocBook is
+ favoured by some people, but it's so bloody verbose, even with emacs
+ support.
+
+
BUILD FARM -----------------------------------------------------------
Add machines
- AMDAHL UTS (Dave Dykstra)
-
Cygwin (on different versions of Win32?)
HP-UX variants (via HP?)
get the manual translated first, because that's possibly more useful
and at any rate demonstrates desire.
-
rsyncsh
Write a small emulation of interactive ftp as a Pythonn program
fairly directly into rsync commands: it just needs to remember the
current host, directory and so on. We can probably even do
completion of remote filenames.
+
+
+RELATED PROJECTS -----------------------------------------------------
+
+http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/
+
+rsyncable gzip patch
+
+ Exhaustive, tortuous testing
+
+ Cleanups?
+
+rsyncsplit as alternative to real integration with gzip?
+
+reverse rsync over HTTP Range
+
+ Goswin Brederlow suggested this on Debian; I think tridge and I
+ talked about it previous in relation to rproxy.
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff