From 22f5bd5e35a0b148a8f9b0c0bb9d18827e6996b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:55:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improved some of the items. --- NEWS | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 58d6802c..bf593f33 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -24,28 +24,29 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N. - - One fork() call needed to check for and handle a failure. + - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed. ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases. - - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir). - - - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file (promoted from the - patches dir). - - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except that it copies identical files. - - Added support for multiple --*-dest options (promoted from the - patches dir). + - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or + --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the + patches dir) + + - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir). + + - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from + the patches dir) - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options - so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible for a - user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that - could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects. + so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to + start a daemon that had improper default option values that could + cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects. - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value -- 2.34.1