Inadequate error checking in rsync 2.5.5
David Norwood
judapeno at adelphia.net
Sat Aug 16 07:04:50 EST 2003
> I've had a chance to think on it. Attached is a patch that
> allows unmap_file() to report the first read error that
> map_ptr found. The behaviour is the same. I doubt this will
> apply against anything but CVS HEAD as of now.
>
> This should probably use FERROR instead of FINFO so that a
> partial transfer is reported.
>
> Any thoughts guys?
Okay, with this patch I now get error messages, but it still creates null
filled output files. I guess that is what you meant by "the behavior is the
same".
David
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