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3 | URGENT --------------------------------------------------------------- |
4 | ||
33d213bb MP |
5 | |
6 | IMPORTANT ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
7 | ||
8 | Cross-test versions | |
9 | ||
10 | Part of the regression suite should be making sure that we don't | |
11 | break backwards compatibility: old clients vs new servers and so | |
12 | on. Ideally we would test the cross product of versions. | |
13 | ||
14 | It might be sufficient to test downloads from well-known public | |
15 | rsync servers running different versions of rsync. This will give | |
16 | some testing and also be the most common case for having different | |
17 | versions and not being able to upgrade. | |
18 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
19 | use chroot |
20 | ||
21 | If the platform doesn't support it, then don't even try. | |
22 | ||
23 | If running as non-root, then don't fail, just give a warning. | |
24 | (There was a thread about this a while ago?) | |
25 | ||
26 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-August/thread.html | |
27 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-September/thread.html | |
28 | ||
29 | --files-from | |
30 | ||
31 | Avoids traversal. Better option than a pile of --include statements | |
32 | for people who want to generate the file list using a find(1) | |
33 | command or a script. | |
34 | ||
35 | Performance | |
36 | ||
37 | Traverse just one directory at a time. Tridge says it's possible. | |
38 | ||
39 | Can possibly also be smarter about memory use while looking for hard | |
38c66db8 MP |
40 | links by reducing the refcount as we find alternative names. In |
41 | fact at the moment the code seems to make a whole second copy of the | |
42 | file list, which seems unnecessary. | |
a2d2e5c0 MP |
43 | |
44 | IPv6 | |
45 | ||
c33e3e39 MP |
46 | Implement suggestions from http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/ |
47 | and ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/RFC/rfc2553.txt | |
48 | ||
49 | If a host has multiple addresses, then listen try to connect to all | |
50 | in order until we get through. (getaddrinfo may return multiple | |
c10b0bdd | 51 | addresses.) This is kind of implemented already. |
c33e3e39 MP |
52 | |
53 | Possibly also when starting as a server we may need to listen on | |
54 | multiple passive addresses. This might be a bit harder, because we | |
55 | may need to select on all of them. Hm. | |
56 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
57 | Define a syntax for IPv6 literal addresses. Since they include |
58 | colons, they tend to break most naming systems, including ours. | |
59 | Based on the HTTP IPv6 syntax, I think we should use | |
60 | ||
61 | rsync://[::1]/foo/bar | |
62 | [::1]::bar | |
63 | ||
64 | which should just take a small change to the parser code. | |
65 | ||
5aafd07b MP |
66 | Errors |
67 | ||
68 | If we hang or get SIGINT, then explain where we were up to. Perhaps | |
69 | have a static buffer that contains the current function name, or | |
70 | some kind of description of what we were trying to do. This is a | |
71 | little easier on people than needing to run strace/truss. | |
72 | ||
73 | "The dungeon collapses! You are killed." Rather than "unexpected | |
74 | eof" give a message that is more detailed if possible and also more | |
75 | helpful. | |
76 | ||
5575de14 MP |
77 | File attributes |
78 | ||
79 | Device major/minor numbers should be at least 32 bits each. See | |
80 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-November/005357.html | |
81 | ||
82 | Transfer ACLs. Need to think of a standard representation. | |
83 | Probably better not to even try to convert between NT and POSIX. | |
84 | Possibly can share some code with Samba. | |
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28a69e25 MP |
86 | Empty directories |
87 | ||
88 | With the current common --include '*/' --exclude '*' pattern, people | |
89 | can end up with many empty directories. We might avoid this by | |
90 | lazily creating such directories. | |
91 | ||
92 | zlib | |
93 | ||
94 | Perhaps don't use our own zlib. Will we actually be incompatible, | |
95 | or just be slightly less efficient? | |
96 | ||
97 | logging | |
98 | ||
99 | Perhaps flush stdout after each filename, so that people trying to | |
100 | monitor progress in a log file can do so more easily. See | |
101 | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=48108 | |
102 | ||
7c583c73 MP |
103 | rsyncd over ssh |
104 | ||
105 | There are already some patches to do this. | |
106 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
107 | PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------ |
108 | ||
109 | Win32 | |
110 | ||
111 | Don't detach, because this messes up --srvany. | |
112 | ||
113 | http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00234.html | |
114 | ||
115 | According to "Effective TCP/IP Programming" (??) close() on a socket | |
116 | has incorrect behaviour on Windows -- it sends a RST packet to the | |
117 | other side, which gives a "connection reset by peer" error. On that | |
118 | platform we should probably do shutdown() instead. However, on Unix | |
119 | we are correct to call close(), because shutdown() discards | |
120 | untransmitted data. | |
121 | ||
7c583c73 MP |
122 | DOCUMENTATION -------------------------------------------------------- |
123 | ||
124 | Update README | |
125 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
126 | BUILD FARM ----------------------------------------------------------- |
127 | ||
128 | Add machines | |
129 | ||
130 | AMDAHL UTS (Dave Dykstra) | |
131 | ||
132 | Cygwin (on different versions of Win32?) | |
133 | ||
134 | HP-UX variants (via HP?) | |
33d213bb | 135 | |
5aafd07b MP |
136 | SCO |
137 | ||
46ef7d1d MP |
138 | NICE ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
139 | ||
71b3374b MP |
140 | SIGHUP |
141 | ||
142 | Re-read config file (just exec() ourselves) rather than exiting. | |
143 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
144 | --no-detach and --no-fork options |
145 | ||
146 | Very useful for debugging. Also good when running under a | |
147 | daemon-monitoring process that tries to restart the service when the | |
148 | parent exits. | |
149 | ||
150 | hang/timeout friendliness | |
151 | ||
152 | On | |
153 | ||
50f2f002 MP |
154 | verbose output |
155 | ||
156 | Indicate whether files are new, updated, or deleted | |
157 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
158 | internationalization |
159 | ||
160 | Change to using gettext(). Probably need to ship this for platforms | |
161 | that don't have it. | |
162 | ||
163 | Solicit translations. | |
164 | ||
165 | Does anyone care? | |
166 | ||
46ef7d1d MP |
167 | rsyncsh |
168 | ||
169 | Write a small emulation of interactive ftp as a Pythonn program | |
170 | that calls rsync. Commands such as "cd", "ls", "ls *.c" etc map | |
171 | fairly directly into rsync commands: it just needs to remember the | |
172 | current host, directory and so on. We can probably even do | |
173 | completion of remote filenames. | |
174 |