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[George Georgalis]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:12:42AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:00:01AM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>> A lot of these posts 3 years old, is there plans or reasons not to
>> include [--source-filter / --dest-filter] in the main line code?
>
>That patch opens up a huge security hole in daemon servers, so that
>would have to be handled somehow (perhaps by making those options
>auto-refused).  There are also several bugs/deficiencies that would need
>to be fixed (my updated patch--see below--lists the ones that I saw but
>didn't fix).  Even if all that were done, I'd still be hesitant to add
>these options, though.
>
>I've just updated the several-year-old patch, and committed it into the
>patches dir:
>
>http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync/patches/source-filter_dest-filter.diff

Thanks for the update, looks like there is still some issues to resolve,
even for in-house use. The goal still seems pretty desirable though.

Regards,
// George


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