Patch: Better handling for rsync temporary files

[Alex Jurkiewicz]

Any comments?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Alex Jurkiewicz <alex at jurkiewi.cz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> These two patches change how rsync handles temporary files on the receiver
> side. The first patch adds a static token to rsync's temporary filenames.
> The second patch ignores files with this token when using --cvs-ignore.
> http://pastebin.com/DL1jCNfm
> http://pastebin.com/yy9duP8Z
> The behaviour I wanted to improve was the case where two rsyncs are
> simultaneously reading and writing the same tree. In this scenario the
> reader can end up reading the writer's temporary files (unless you use
> --temp-dir) and copying them elsewhere.
> A side effect of this change is the names of rsync's temporary files will be
> "self-documenting" for users running `ls -la`.
> I've tested this patch on Linux, but am reasonably unfamiliar with C so
> feedback appreciated.
> Cheers,
> Alex