Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-28 Thread Ben Escoto
JS == jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:05:50 -0700 JS As a poor example let us suppose that a filename contained a JS /. A UNIX system using translation might turn this into _. JS Escapement might turn it into =2F and = into =3D. rdiff-backup has

Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-28 Thread Martin Pool
On 27 Jul 2002, jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The server has no need to deal with cleint limitations. I am saying that the protocol would make the bare minimum of limitatons (null termination, no nulls in names). It probably also makes sense to follow NFS4 in representing paths as a

Re: Pipelined rsync proposal (was Re: superlifter design notes)

2002-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 02:04:02PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, jw schultz wrote: What i am seeing is a Multi-stage pipeline. This is quite an interesting design idea. Let me comment on a few things that I've been mulling over since first reading it: One thing you

Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:39:22PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: On 27 Jul 2002, jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The server has no need to deal with cleint limitations. I am saying that the protocol would make the bare minimum of limitatons (null termination, no nulls in names). It

timestamp on symlink

2002-07-28 Thread Michael Wang
rsync does not sync the timestamp on symlink (Solaris 8). It is probablly due to the limitation of Unix implementation of symlink, but I would like to know why rsync/Unix does not do this, and what we can do about it. Is the conclusion that rsync syncs everything except the timestamp on symlink?

IPv4/v6 socket problem on BSD

2002-07-28 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Currently, if IPv6-enabled rsync is run as --daemon, it will perform a wildcard bind(2) on an AF_INET6 socket and expect that IPv4 traffic will be forwarded to the v6 socket (IPv4 mapped address, RFC2553). This has never worked on OpenBSD which disallows IPv4 mapped addresses for security

Ex-Bug Report: -z option

2002-07-28 Thread szii
Since writing this I've recompiled with zlib 1.1.4 and everything appears smooth. Since this is intermittant, I'll send it off anyways in the hops that someone else may see it. It also *might* apply to the known issues entry about unexpected close. (Similar symptoms, but it may just be a

Re: timestamp on symlink

2002-07-28 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:40:56PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: On 28 Jul 2002, Michael Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rsync does not sync the timestamp on symlink (Solaris 8). It is probablly due to the limitation of Unix implementation of symlink, but I would like to know why rsync/Unix