On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:01:31AM -0800, Phillip Moore wrote:
> I want to write a library that can directly contact an rsyncd server without
> using the rsync client program. Does anyone know of something else that has
> been written to use the rsync protocol or has someone already done this
> type of thing already?
>
> Just trying to save myself from having to unravel all of rsync code unless
> I have to. :-)
It hasn't been done, and it's not a good idea because the protocol that the
rsync program uses is not intended to be general or have more than one
implementation. It is highly optimized for the one application. There are
even many cases in the code where version numbers are checked in order to
know what the other side is expecting.
What exactly did you want to do with the library?
- Dave Dykstra
