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Re: Why no work on rsync?
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Re: Why no work on rsync?


  • Subject: Re: Why no work on rsync?
  • From: John Davidorff Pell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:14:24 -0800

Just out of curiosity, is Apple's rsync so divergent from upstream that this type of bug could be introduced? or do you think it was just a poor accident of deleting a line unintentionally?

Thanks,
JP


On 3 Mar 2006, at 13:02, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

Yep. We found the bug almost immediately too. Now we just need to work out how to best get the fix into people's hands. As simple a process as this may seem to people outside ("Just release a tarball! Re-roll the update!"), there's a lot more involved. We're working on it.

- Jordan

On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
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http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/ rsync-23.tar.gz

Thank you.

Looking at the diff with rsync-20, the bug jumps out immediately:

In rsync/syscall.c, the function do_unlink() has no return value if the file name doesn't begin with "._". This is confirmed by the behavior of rsync: Files starting with "._" are deleted with no error, others give the error.

--
Martin



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