NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased) Protocol: 29 (unchanged) Changes since 2.6.8: BUG FIXES: - If rsync is interrupted via a handled signal (such as SIGINT), it will once again clean-up its temp file from the destination dir. - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these options now accept a safe number of parent-dir (../) references (since these options are relative to the destination dir). The old code incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy. - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the generator. This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client process. (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was receiving files.) - Fixed a bug where using --dry-run with a --*-dest option with a path relative to a directory that does not yet exist: the affected option gets its proper path value so that the output of the dry-run is right. - Fixed a bug in the %f logfile escape when receiving files: the destination path is now included in the output (e.g. you can now tell when a user specifies a subdir inside a module). - If the receiving side fails to create a directory, it will now skip trying to update everything that is inside that directory. - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file even when the file's modify-time doesn't match the server's file. - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a chroot. This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone over and over again). - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option: it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used to successfully update a destination file. - Fixed a bug in the handling of --delete-excluded when using a per-dir merge file: the merge file is now honored on the receiving side, and only its unqualified include/exclude commands are ignored (just as is done for global include/excludes). - Fixed a recent bug where --delete was not working when transferring from the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - Fixed a recent bug where an --exclude='*' could affect the root (/) of the filesystem with --relative enabled. - When --inplace creates a file, it is now created with owner read/write permissions (0600) instead of no permissions at all. This avoids a problem continuing a transfer that was interrupted (since --inplace will not update a file that has no write permissions). - If either --remove-source-files or --remove-sent-files is enabled and we are unable to remove the source file, rsync now outputs an error. - Fixed a bug in the daemon's "incoming chmod" rule: newly-created directories no longer get the 'F' (file) rules applied to them. - Fixed an infinite loop bug when a filter rule was rejected due to being overly long. - When the server receives a --partial-dir option from the client, it no longer runs the client-side code that adds an assumed filter rule (since the client will be sending us the rules in the usual manner, and they may have chosen to override the auto-added rule). ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options. These can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file. They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf settings when starting a daemon. - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing it with affecting the log-file output. (The old option remains as an alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.) - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in the daemon's config file. - Added the --remove-source-files option as a replacement for the (now deprecated) --remove-sent-files option. This new option removes all non-dirs from the source directories, even if the file was already up-to-date. This fixes a problem where interrupting an rsync that was using --remove-sent-files and restarting it could leave behind a file that the earlier rsync synchronized, but didn't get to remove. (The deprecated --remove-sent-files is still understood for now, and still behaves in the same way as before.) - Added the option --no-motd to suppress the message-of-the-day output from a daemon when doing a copy. (See the manpage for a caveat.) - Added a new environment variable to the pre-/post-xfer exec commands (in the daemon's config file): RSYNC_PID. This value will be the same in both the pre- and post-xfer commands, so it can be used if the pre-xfer command wants to cache some arg/request info for the post-xfer command. INTERNAL: - Did a code audit using IBM's code-checker program and made several changes, including: replacing most of the strcpy() and sprintf() calls with strlcpy(), snprintf(), and memcpy(), adding a 0-value to an enum that had been intermingling a literal 0 with the defined enum values, silencing some uninitialized memory checks, marking some functions with a "noreturn" attribute, and changing an "if" that could never succeed on some platforms into a pre-processor directive that conditionally compiles the code. - Fixed a potential bug in f_name_cmp() when both the args are a top-level "." dir (which doesn't happen in normal operations). - Changed exit_cleanup() so that it can never return instead of exit. The old code might return if it found the exit_cleanup() function was being called recursively. The new code is segmented so that any recursive calls move on to the next step of the exit-processing. DEVELOPER RELATED: - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution. - The rsync.yo and rsyncd.conf.yo files have been updated to work better with the latest yodl 2.x releases. - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version. - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have consistent opening comments.