X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/e92ee12893ca6320f5331384b2c2e8560ca9c88a..fcb6d28d0bcfa9ac630ee7cf38ff08a1978ee01c:/io.c

diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index 2f4162cd..eca02fa0 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-/* 
-   Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1996
+/* -*- c-file-style: "linux" -*-
+   
+   Copyright (C) 1996-2001 by Andrew Tridgell 
    Copyright (C) Paul Mackerras 1996
    
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ static void check_timeout(void)
 
 	if (last_io && io_timeout && (t-last_io) >= io_timeout) {
 		if (!am_server && !am_daemon) {
-			rprintf(FERROR,"io timeout after %d second - exiting\n", 
+			rprintf(FERROR,"io timeout after %d seconds - exiting\n", 
 				(int)(t-last_io));
 		}
 		exit_cleanup(RERR_TIMEOUT);
@@ -103,9 +104,15 @@ static void read_error_fd(void)
 
 static int no_flush;
 
-/* read from a socket with IO timeout. return the number of
-   bytes read. If no bytes can be read then exit, never return
-   a number <= 0 */
+/*
+ * Read from a socket with IO timeout. return the number of bytes
+ * read. If no bytes can be read then exit, never return a number <= 0.
+ *
+ * TODO: If the remote shell connection fails, then current versions actually
+ * report an "unexpected EOF" error here.  Since it's a fairly common mistake
+ * to try to use rsh when ssh is required, we should trap that: if we fail
+ * to read any data at all, we should give a better explanation.
+ */
 static int read_timeout(int fd, char *buf, int len)
 {
 	int n, ret=0;
@@ -377,7 +384,10 @@ static void writefd_unbuffered(int fd,char *buf,int len)
 			}
 
 			if (ret <= 0) {
-				rprintf(FERROR,"erroring writing %d bytes - exiting\n", len);
+				rprintf(FERROR,
+					"error writing %d unbuffered bytes"
+					" - exiting: %s\n", len,
+					strerror(errno));
 				exit_cleanup(RERR_STREAMIO);
 			}
 
@@ -455,6 +465,8 @@ void io_flush(void)
 	io_buffer_count = 0;
 }
 
+
+/* XXX: fd is ignored, which seems a little strange. */
 void io_end_buffering(int fd)
 {
 	io_flush();
@@ -505,6 +517,11 @@ void write_int(int f,int32 x)
 	writefd(f,b,4);
 }
 
+
+/*
+ * Note: int64 may actually be a 32-bit type if ./configure couldn't find any
+ * 64-bit types on this platform.
+ */
 void write_longint(int f, int64 x)
 {
 	extern int remote_version;