patch to avoid race condition in rsync 2.5.6

Carson Gaspar carson at taltos.org
Wed May 21 08:10:56 EST 2003


--On Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:57 PM +0200 Paul Slootman 
<paul+rsync at wurtel.net> wrote:

> Hmm, might this not lead to the situation that the file can't be renamed
> due to the permissions in some cases?

Not until rsync implements ACLs, and probably not then. Renaming is based 
on the directory's permissions, not the file's. At least in POSIX 
environments.

-- 
Carson




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