Requires compilation using GCC C++ front end, build scripts have been
modified accordingly. C++ is only used when the optimization is enabled
(g++ as compiler, x86-64 build target, --enable-sse2 is passed to
configure).
(Wayne made a few tweaks, including making it disabled by default.)
If both sides support the "V" compatibility flag, we send the file-list
flags as a varint instead of a 1-or-2 byte value. This upgrades the
number of reserved flag bits from 1 to 17 with very few extra bytes in
typical file-list data.
I replaced git-set-file-times with an improved version that I wrote
recently (in python3). A new script uses it to figure out the
last-modified year for each *.[ch] file and updates its copyright.
It also puts the latest year into the latest-year.h file for the
output of --version.
Add a flag for calling get_dirlist() and for send_directory() that
indicates that the dirname is allowed to not be a directory. Based
on a patch by Ben Rubson. Fixes bug #13445.
If the receiver gets a filename with a leading slash (w/o --relative)
and/or a filename with an embedded ".." dir in the path, it dies with
an error (rather than continuing). Those invalid paths should never
happen in reality, so just reject someone trying to pull a fast one.
The I/O code can receive incremental file-list chunks during deletion,
and their OPT_EXTRA fields would get corrupted when file_extra_cnt is
incremented.
Instead of temporarily enabling uid_ndx to find out whether the user
owns a file, have make_file() set a flag for that purpose.
Applied with a few minor tweaks by Wayne. Fixes bug 7936.
- The receiver now sends keep-alive messages to the generator
when it is actively doing work and hasn't sent anything
recently. This ensures that the generator won't timeout
if the receiver is working hard.
- The perform_io() code has improved keep-alive participation.
- Allow the sender to send some keep-alive messages, which
ensures that if it is in a lull, it can probe the socket.
The receiving side also switches timeout handling from the receiver to
the generator, which obviates the need for the sender to send any
keep-alive messages at all (for protocol 31 and beyond). Given this
setup, all keep-alive messages are now sent as empty MSG_DATA messages,
with MSG_NOOP messages only being understood and (when necessary) acted
upon to forward a keep-alive event to an older receiver. This is both
safer and more compatible with older versions.
- The receiver notifies the generator if it is exiting with an error,
and then, if it is a server, waits around for the generator to die.
This ensures that the client side has time to read the error.
- The generator or sender will notifiy the other side of the transfer of
an error-exit value if protocol 31 is in effect. This will get rid of
some "connection unexpectedly closed" errors that are really expected
events due to a fatal exit on the other side.
Files-from data is now sent as multiplexed I/O so that it can mingle
with any messages (such as debug output). Requires protocol 31.
Protocol 31 no longer disables output verbosity in a couple instances
that used to cause protocol issues.
Got rid of MSG_* messages that have implied raw data that follows after
them. We instead send a negative index value as a part of the raw data
stream, which is guaranteed to be output together with the following
data. This only affects the (in-progress) protocol 31 and the (self-
contained) communication stream from the receiver to the generator.
Added --debug=IO and improved --debug=FLIST. Some --debug=IO output
requires --msgs2stderr to be used to see it (i.e. sending a message
about sending a message would send another message, ad infinitum).
