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3 | URGENT --------------------------------------------------------------- |
4 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | |
40 | links by reducing the refcount as we find alternative names. | |
41 | ||
42 | IPv6 | |
43 | ||
44 | Define a syntax for IPv6 literal addresses. Since they include | |
45 | colons, they tend to break most naming systems, including ours. | |
46 | Based on the HTTP IPv6 syntax, I think we should use | |
47 | ||
48 | rsync://[::1]/foo/bar | |
49 | [::1]::bar | |
50 | ||
51 | which should just take a small change to the parser code. | |
52 | ||
5aafd07b MP |
53 | Errors |
54 | ||
55 | If we hang or get SIGINT, then explain where we were up to. Perhaps | |
56 | have a static buffer that contains the current function name, or | |
57 | some kind of description of what we were trying to do. This is a | |
58 | little easier on people than needing to run strace/truss. | |
59 | ||
60 | "The dungeon collapses! You are killed." Rather than "unexpected | |
61 | eof" give a message that is more detailed if possible and also more | |
62 | helpful. | |
63 | ||
64 | ||
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65 | PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------ |
66 | ||
67 | Win32 | |
68 | ||
69 | Don't detach, because this messes up --srvany. | |
70 | ||
71 | http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00234.html | |
72 | ||
73 | According to "Effective TCP/IP Programming" (??) close() on a socket | |
74 | has incorrect behaviour on Windows -- it sends a RST packet to the | |
75 | other side, which gives a "connection reset by peer" error. On that | |
76 | platform we should probably do shutdown() instead. However, on Unix | |
77 | we are correct to call close(), because shutdown() discards | |
78 | untransmitted data. | |
79 | ||
80 | BUILD FARM ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
81 | ||
82 | Add machines | |
83 | ||
84 | AMDAHL UTS (Dave Dykstra) | |
85 | ||
86 | Cygwin (on different versions of Win32?) | |
87 | ||
88 | HP-UX variants (via HP?) | |
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90 | SCO |
91 | ||
46ef7d1d MP |
92 | NICE ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
93 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
94 | --no-detach and --no-fork options |
95 | ||
96 | Very useful for debugging. Also good when running under a | |
97 | daemon-monitoring process that tries to restart the service when the | |
98 | parent exits. | |
99 | ||
100 | hang/timeout friendliness | |
101 | ||
102 | On | |
103 | ||
104 | internationalization | |
105 | ||
106 | Change to using gettext(). Probably need to ship this for platforms | |
107 | that don't have it. | |
108 | ||
109 | Solicit translations. | |
110 | ||
111 | Does anyone care? | |
112 | ||
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113 | rsyncsh |
114 | ||
115 | Write a small emulation of interactive ftp as a Pythonn program | |
116 | that calls rsync. Commands such as "cd", "ls", "ls *.c" etc map | |
117 | fairly directly into rsync commands: it just needs to remember the | |
118 | current host, directory and so on. We can probably even do | |
119 | completion of remote filenames. | |
120 |