Re: --append option description in manpage confusing

2007-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
Firstly, thanks for the patches. I've checked in my slightly tweaked versions into CVS. On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > The text in the description of the --append option may lead one to > believe that files that are shorter on the receiving side won't be > update

--append option description in manpage confusing

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Slootman
[ see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426191 ] The text in the description of the --append option may lead one to believe that files that are shorter on the receiving side won't be updated, due to the following text: ... Only files on the receiving side that are shorter t

[PATCH] prevent negative "time left" values with --progress when file grows

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Slootman
[ see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415648 ] When a source file grows during transfer, rsync may show negative time values such as 0:-1:-34. The following patch replaces then negative times with ??:??:?? in such cases (as IMHO it's not worth the bother of getting the filesize ag

[PATCH] look for port number only within host part in rsync:// syntax

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Slootman
[See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369904 ] The following patch stops rsync from confusing the 123 in the following command line with the port number: $ rsync /tmp/somefile rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/module/a:123:b rsync: getaddrinfo: otherbox/module/a 123: Name or service not k

[PATCH] handle dir entries with zero length(!)

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Slootman
It's probably a kernel bug, and I shouldn't have tried to backup /sys on a linux system, but rsync dumped core on me due to the following: $ ls -al /sys/module/usbcore/parameters | cat -vet total 0$ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0 2007-07-26 18:50 $ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0 2007-07-26 18:50 .$ drwx