Clarification on the RSYNC_RAW_STATUS and RSYNC_EXIT_STATUS

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Wed Sep 20 03:35:09 GMT 2006


On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:13:04AM -0600, Rob Bosch wrote:
> I've noticed that even if rsync has a non-zero exit code on the client that
> the server still reports an exit status of 0.

This can happen if the error occurred on the client side because there
is no attempt to get the final exit status from the client side to the
server side.  The only thing this server-side exit status tells you is
the exit status of the server process.

..wayne..


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