From: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 03:25:28 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Mention the early-input on stdin.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.1~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6a9adabfbbebf682c173c1ee1c9322a94cf096be;p=thirdparty%2Frsync.git

Mention the early-input on stdin.
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diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.5.md b/rsyncd.conf.5.md
index 84d2670a..bc5a571b 100644
--- a/rsyncd.conf.5.md
+++ b/rsyncd.conf.5.md
@@ -957,7 +957,9 @@ the values of parameters.  See the GLOBAL PARAMETERS section for more details.
     request is known except for the module name.  This helper script can be
     used to setup a disk mount or decrypt some data into a module dir, but you
     may need to use `lock file` and `max connections` to avoid concurrency
-    issues.
+    issues.  If the client rsync specified the `--early-input=FILE` option, it
+    can send up to about 5K of data to the stdin of the early script.  The
+    stdin will otherwise be empty.
 
     Note that the `post-xfer exec` command is still run even if one of the
     other scripts returns an error code. The `pre-xfer exec` command will _not_