The exclude.test file continues to run local copies (which are a special
kind of "push") while the exclude-lsh.test symlink runs a a "pull" using
the lsh.sh script as the "remote" shell.
When conversing with a protocol 29 or earlier rsync, the modtime values
are arriving as 4-byte integers. This change interprets these short
values as unsigned integers, allowing the time that can be conveyed to
range from 1-Jan-1970 to 7-Feb-2106 instead of the signed range of
13-Dec-1901 to 19-Jan-2038. Given that we are fast approaching 2038,
any old-protocol transfers will be better served using the unsigned
range rather than the signed.
It is important to keep in mind that protocol 30 & 31 convey the full
8-byte mtime value (plus nanoseconds), allowing for a huge span of time
that is not affected by this change.
- The sanitize_paths variable was set too often. It only needs to be set
when the "inner" path is not "/". This change avoids sanitizing &
munging things for a path=/ module just because chroot is off.
- The default for "use chroot" is now "unset" instead of "true". When
unset it checks if chrooting works, and if not, it proceeds with a
sanitized copy instead of totally failing to work. This makes it
easier to setup a non-root rsync daemon, for instance. It will have
no effect on a typical Linux root-run daemon where the default will
continue to use chroot (because chrooting works). A config file can
explicitly set "use chroot = true | false" to force the choice.
- Try to improve the "use chroot" manpage.
When using the --fuzzy option to try and find close matches locally,
the edit distance algorithm used is O(N^2), which can get painful on
CPU constrained systems when working in folders with tens of thousands
of files in it.
The lower bound on the calculated Levenshtein distance is the difference
of the two strings being compared, so if that difference is larger than
the current best match, the calculation of the exact edit distance between
the two strings can be skipped.
Testing on the OpenSUSE package repo has shown a 50% reduction in the CPU time
required to plan the rsync transaction.
