From 8b46340924320180ee838bc1ff67c4d6dd3fbc30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 06:29:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mentioned the better handling of option paths when a daemon is not running with chroot enabled. --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2f1df1c1..910adf31 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -81,12 +81,19 @@ Changes since 2.6.0: when trying to open the file. It also no longer constructs names that start with a double slash (unless the user supplied them). + * Path-specifying options to a daemon should now work the same with + or without chroot turned on. Previously, such an option (such as + --link-dest) would get munged into relative path if chroot was not + on, making the option fairly useless. Rsync now transforms the + path into one that is based on the module's root dir, just as if + chroot were enabled. + * Fixed compilation problem on Tru64 Unix (having to do with sockaddr.sa_len and sockaddr.sin_len). * Fixed a compatibility problem interacting with older rsync - versions that might send us an empty suffix without telling us - about the backup-dir. + versions that might send us an empty --suffix value without + telling us that --backup-dir was specified. * The "hosts allow" option for a daemon-over-remote-shell process now has improved support for IPv6 addresses and a fix -- 2.34.1