Add notes on things to do mentioned on the list in the last few months.

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@@ -16,9 +16,86 @@ Cross-test versions
   some testing and also be the most common case for having different
   versions and not being able to upgrade.
 
   some testing and also be the most common case for having different
   versions and not being able to upgrade.
 

+use chroot
+
+  If the platform doesn't support it, then don't even try.
+
+  If running as non-root, then don't fail, just give a warning.
+  (There was a thread about this a while ago?)
+
+    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-August/thread.html
+    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-September/thread.html
+
+--files-from
+
+  Avoids traversal.  Better option than a pile of --include statements
+  for people who want to generate the file list using a find(1)
+  command or a script.
+
+Performance
+
+  Traverse just one directory at a time.  Tridge says it's possible.
+ 
+  Can possibly also be smarter about memory use while looking for hard
+  links by reducing the refcount as we find alternative names.
+
+IPv6
+
+  Define a syntax for IPv6 literal addresses.  Since they include
+  colons, they tend to break most naming systems, including ours.
+  Based on the HTTP IPv6 syntax, I think we should use
+ 
+     rsync://[::1]/foo/bar
+     [::1]::bar
+
+  which should just take a small change to the parser code.
+
+PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Win32
+
+  Don't detach, because this messes up --srvany.
+
+  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.
+
+BUILD FARM -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Add machines
+
+  AMDAHL UTS (Dave Dykstra)
+
+  Cygwin (on different versions of Win32?)
+
+  HP-UX variants (via HP?)

 
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+--no-detach and --no-fork options
+
+  Very useful for debugging.  Also good when running under a
+  daemon-monitoring process that tries to restart the service when the
+  parent exits.
+
+hang/timeout friendliness
+
+  On 
+
+internationalization
+
+  Change to using gettext().  Probably need to ship this for platforms
+  that don't have it.  
+
+  Solicit translations.
+
+  Does anyone care?
+

 rsyncsh 
 
    Write a small emulation of interactive ftp as a Pythonn program
 rsyncsh 
 
    Write a small emulation of interactive ftp as a Pythonn program