rsyncing fifos and sockets on FreeBSD

2003-10-26 Thread Dominik Brettnacher
Hi there, I already asked the list about the problems with sockets on FreeBSD (see here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08121.html). I adopted Andrew Flury's patch to the recent CVS version of rsync: Index: rsync.h ==

Re: rsyncing fifos and sockets on FreeBSD

2003-09-15 Thread Dominik Brettnacher
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, jw schultz wrote: > The patch won't be effective with the current codebase. I > would be inclined to accept a patch that did the fifo. It > will take more pursuading for the sockets. What is the problem with Andrew's approach? -- Dominik "A good piece of technology dream

rsyncing fifos and sockets on FreeBSD

2003-09-14 Thread Dominik Brettnacher
Hi there, there is a problem (which as far as i know) is already known with rsync on FreeBSD: it is not possible to rsync neither fifos nor unix domain sockets (note that you have to be root there): # mkfifo test # file test test: fifo (named pipe) # rsync -a test test2 mknod test2 : Invalid argu