rsync and missing files?

[Jos Backus]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:18:30PM -0500, John Madden wrote:
> >> Well, since this was the only response, are we looking at the
> >> possibility of this being the default behavior?
> >
> > I don't think it would be a good idea to have qmail-specific locking in
> > rsync.
> 
> Agreed - and I don't run qmail anyway (courier), but I thought he meant
> "some form of locking."

Indeed. I was talking about adding locking to the wrapper that runs the backup
process (which in turn uses rsync), not to rsync itself. Application-specific
hacks do not belong in rsync.

> >> I'd be quite happy with rsync just throwing a warning and going to the
> >> next file, or at least there being an option to turn on such behavior.
> >
> > Isn't that the current behaviour?
> 
> No, not at all.  As per my original post, rsync will complain about the list
> of files it can't open and then just exit.  At least, that's what it appears
> to be doing!

Hm, perhaps that can be fixed.

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