Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.4:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
+ escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is
+ output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
+ is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
+ should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when
+ appropriate).
+
+ - 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
+ 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
+ now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
+ exit with the appropriate exit status.
+
BUG FIXES:
- A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
rsyncd.conf file.
- Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
- that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash.
+ that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
- Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
receiving side.
+ - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+ sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
- - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
- characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output
- using octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and backslash is output as "\\".
+ - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
+ (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
+ periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
+ can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
- Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,