batch-mode fixes [was: [PATCH] fix read-batch SEGFAULT]

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:42:18PM -0700, Jos Backus wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:18:10PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > 	BTW, there is a work-around.  If you don't mind duplicating the mirror
> > twice, one solution is to do a regular (no --write-batch) rsync update of one
> > copy of the mirror, and then do the --write-batch during a local to local
> > rsync update of another copy of the mirror.  Actually, this has some real
> > advantages if your network connection is unreliable. 
> 
> That was in fact the way I envisioned us using it at work, together with
> multicast-based batch file distribution (but the project never got off the
> ground).
> 

	Nice to know I'm not alone :-)  Thanks for the report.

-chris

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