(fwd from flepied@mandrakesoft.com) rsync dead loop

[Albert Chin]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:19:56AM -0800, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2002, Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > While testing a frontend to rsync, we have been bitten by rsync eating
> > all the memory of the host. We have found that it was due to rsync
> > trying to write an error and then failing to write the error and
> > trying to report that it fails to write the error and so on. I have
> > attached a patch which breaks the loop.
> 
> Thankyou for the patch.

Any reason this patch isn't in 2.5.5?

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)