In parse_arguments when --protect-args is encountered the function exits
early. The caller is expected to check protect_args, and recall
parse_arguments setting protect_args to 2. This patch prevents the
client from resetting protect_args during the second pass of
parse_arguments. This prevents parse_arguments returning early the
second time before it's able to sanitize the arguments it received.
The new code tries to punch holes in the destination file using newer
Linux fallocate features. It also supports a --whole-file + --sparse +
--inplace copy on any filesystem by truncating the destination file.
This patch adds the ability to specify --modify-window=-1 (aka -@-1) to
ask rsync to compare files with the full nanosecond timestamps. The
default is still -@0 for the moment, which ignores nanoseconds in time
comparisons. Changing the default to -1 would cause a copy from ext4 to
ext3 to constantly compare as different, or a copy there and back again
to do a full copy as it zeroed all the nanosecond times. Such a change
might be too much of a functional difference for things like backup
solutions to handle without a warning period. The current plan is to
support nanosecond comparisons for those that want them, and possibly
change the default window value from 0 to -1 at some point in the
future.
I added a compatibility flag for protocol 31 that will let both sides
know if they should be using the xattr optimization that attempted to
avoid sending xattr info for hardlinked files. Since this optimization
was causing some issues, this compatibility flag will ensure that both
sides know if they should be trying to use the optimization or not.
Adding new-style compression that only compresses the literal data that
is sent over the wire and not also matching file data that was not sent.
This new-style compression is compatible with external zlib instances,
and will eventually become the default (once enough time has passed that
all servers support the --new-compress and --old-compress options).
NOTE: if you build rsync with an external zlib (i.e. if you specified
configure --with-included-zlib=no) you will ONLY get support for the
--new-compress option! A client will treat -z as uncompressed (with a
warning) and a server will exit with an error (unless -zz was used).
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).
- Improve function name: parse_rule -> parse_filter_str (to make the
similarity with parse_filter_file clearer, and better indicate that
it can parse multiple rules when FILTRULE_WORD_SPLIT is specified).
- In preparation for rule prefixes containing information beyond the
rflags, change the code to pass around a full "template" filter_rule
instead of just rflags. Callers of parse_filter_{str,file} that want
to specify only rflags can use rule_template(rflags) .
- Remove the MODIFIERS_* strings and instead hand-code the condition
under which each modifier is valid. This should make it easier to
see that the conditions are correct.
- Tighten up default modifiers on merge rules:
- Disallow "!" because it isn't useful.
- If the merge rule specifies a side via "s" or "r", the rules in the
file cannot also specify a side via "s", "r", "hide", etc.
[Patch was changed by Wayne a bit prior to application.]