Hi all,
There seems to be a problem when trying to retrieve a file that starts
with a '-' character, if it lives in the top of an rsync repository:
/Users/tim $ rsync --list-only 'rsync://xxxx/repository/-fails'
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
/SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/io.c(452) [receiver=2.6.9]
/Users/tim $ rsync --list-only 'rsync://xxxx/repository/rsync-bug/-works'
-rw-r--r-- 218 2010/12/22 10:11:12 -works
And on another occasion I got this:
rsync: on remote machine: -SndBLVaDchzm60h4WPrfNiVu5k.cer: invalid
numeric value
rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at
clientserver.c(841) [sender=3.0.7]
rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (54)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
/SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/io.c(603) [receiver=2.6.9]
My client is version 2.6.9 on Mac OS X. My server is 3.0.7 on linux:
Centos 5.5.
Now I admit that starting a file name with a '-' may be asking for
trouble, but in our particular case we could not avoid this. We are able
to work around the problem for now, but have no real way to prevent it
from happening again. Why this is is not so relevant to this problem I
believe.. ideally rsync should be able to just deal with this.
I am new to this list, but I could not find anything related to this
issue in the bugtracker or archive. So as far as I can tell this is not
a known issue.. Did anyone on this list experience the same problem?
Is this indeed a bug in rsync? And if so is it server side and canit be
fixed? Upgrading the server is a lot easier than getting all the clients
to upgrade.
Regards,
Tim Bruijnzeels
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