Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-16 Thread Hardy Merrill
jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm no writer but i have been toying with the idea of a > practical "how the rsync utility works for the > non-mathematician" document. This wouldn't be a how-to but > would instead describe in broad terms what the rsync > internals are doing, the three proces

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:12:04PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 12 Sep 2003, jw schultz wrote: > > > > > > i did: "rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout" given the hype > > > "rsync(1) is an improved cp(1)" (which it is, no doubt about that) > > > > I don't know where you got that id

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-16 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 12 Sep 2003, jw schultz wrote: > > > > i did: "rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout" given the hype > > "rsync(1) is an improved cp(1)" (which it is, no doubt about that) > > I don't know where you got that idea. You keep repeating it > despite its obvious incorrectness. I certainl

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:50:15AM +0200, Clemens Fischer wrote: > * Martin Pool: > > > On 25 Aug 2003 Clemens Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [snip] > > > You said "copy the file", so it copied the file. Oh, you wanted *the > > contents of* the file? You should have said so. > > i did

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-12 Thread Clemens Fischer
* Martin Pool: > On 25 Aug 2003 Clemens Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [snip] > You said "copy the file", so it copied the file. Oh, you wanted *the > contents of* the file? You should have said so. i did: "rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout" given the hype "rsync(1) is an impro

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-09 Thread Martin Pool
On 25 Aug 2003 Clemens Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * jw schultz: > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:22:39PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > >> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:44:15 +0200 > >> clemens fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > rsync should error exit or message the user when used on spec

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-08-28 Thread Clemens Fischer
* jw schultz: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:22:39PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:44:15 +0200 >> clemens fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > rsync should error exit or message the user when used on special >> > files! >> No, I don't think so. At the most I could stretch

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-08-25 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:22:39PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:44:15 +0200 > clemens fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 > > "promotes" character special files to regular files: > > > > --8<---cut her

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-08-25 Thread Martin Pool
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:44:15 +0200 clemens fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 > "promotes" character special files to regular files: > > --8<---cut here:--start--->8-- > # ll /dev/stdout > 8282 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 22

rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-08-24 Thread clemens fischer
rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 "promotes" character special files to regular files: --8<---cut here:--start--->8-- # 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