Any comments?
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Alex Jurkiewicz <a...@jurkiewi.cz> wrote: > Hi all, > These two patches change how rsync handles temporary files on the receiver > side. The first patch adds a static token to rsync's temporary filenames. > The second patch ignores files with this token when using --cvs-ignore. > http://pastebin.com/DL1jCNfm > http://pastebin.com/yy9duP8Z > The behaviour I wanted to improve was the case where two rsyncs are > simultaneously reading and writing the same tree. In this scenario the > reader can end up reading the writer's temporary files (unless you use > --temp-dir) and copying them elsewhere. > A side effect of this change is the names of rsync's temporary files will be > "self-documenting" for users running `ls -la`. > I've tested this patch on Linux, but am reasonably unfamiliar with C so > feedback appreciated. > Cheers, > Alex -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html