are --temp-dir and --daemon mode compatible options

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:11:55PM -0400, Eddie Anzalone wrote:
> I don't think it's wise allowing the "--daemon" to accept absolute
> paths from the client

Correct, it's not wise unless a client-specified absolute path is
anchored at the start of the module's path, which is what rsync does.  I
was talking about possibly allowing the option specified when *starting
the daemon* to be absolute (since that's a server-specified option), but
I had already decided against this because I want the code to behave
consistently regardless of the setting of "use chroot".

> It seems more intuitive to specify this setting via the conf file,
> rather than on command line.

Yes, that would be a good idea.  Other options such as --address and
--port were recently promoted to config-file settings, and making it
possible to control the temp-dir on a per-module basis would be nice.

> so a new option to use absolute path (to local/private storage) may
> actually help to avoid the small chance of conflict should two rsync
> servers attempt to work on the same file at the same moment?

No, temporary files have a random component to their names so they
cannot conflict.

..wayne..