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NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.3:
BUG FIXES:
- Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
file).
- Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
that already exists in the --backup-dir.
- An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
- Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
the sender, and the file-list is large.
- We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
necessary.
- Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
- One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
- The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
- If the OS does not have lchown(), we no longer try to set the user
& group of a symlink (which would either fail or set the referent).
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 --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
that it includes copies of identical files.
- Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
--link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
patches dir and enhanced.)
- Added the --max-size option. (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 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
that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
- Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
the patches dir.)
- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
partial file.
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().