rsyncing fifos and sockets on FreeBSD

[jw schultz]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:25:47PM +0200, Dominik Brettnacher wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> there is a problem (which as far as i know) is already known with rsync on
> FreeBSD: it is not possible to rsync neither fifos nor unix domain
> sockets (note that you have to be root there):
> 
> # mkfifo test
> # file test
> test: fifo (named pipe)
> # rsync -a test test2
> mknod test2 : Invalid argument
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620)
> # file /var/run/log
> /var/run/log: socket
> # rsync -a /var/run/log test
> mknod test : Invalid argument
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620)
> 
> 
> There exists a patch for this problem which was originally written vom
> Andrew Flury in 2000 (see here:
> http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-December/003349.html).
> 
> Still, the recent versions of rsync (i.e. 2.5.6) have this behaviour. I
> wonder why nobody applied this patch to a release of rsync, although it
> works flawlessly. Any opinions on this?

The patch won't be effective with the current codebase.  I
would be inclined to accept a patch that did the fifo.  It
will take more pursuading for the sockets.

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