rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
"promotes" character special files to regular files:
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# ll /dev/stdout
8282 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 22, 1 Aug 23 17:30 /dev/stdout
# rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout
$Id: readme,v 1
* 2003-06-20 jw schultz:
> It doesn't copy files that don't appear to have changed.
> I've used cpio instead of cp myself to take advantage of
> such improvements.
how did you use cpio? could you please post the command line?
clemens
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> > A similar error can occur when open() succeeds but subsequent calls to
> > read() fail: under these circumstances rsync will transfer zeroes instead
> > of the actual file data and will again report no errors to the user.
> > The attached patch fixes both of these problems.
> There is a patch
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> We've just been hit rather badly by a very nasty bug that can cause rsync
> to silently discard files or fill them with zeroes. It happens when e.g.
> opendir() succeeds but readdir() returns an error; rsync does not check
> for a
