rsyncing files that might change

[Franc Carter]

On 11/1/07, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:35 +1000, Franc Carter wrote:
> > If am rsyncing a file and I have the the following sequence of events
> > happen in
> > the same second
> >
> >    1. rsync starts
> >    2. rsync sends some chunk of data to the other end
> >    3 a local process modifies the chunk that has just been sent
>
> > So, my question - is this case a race condition in which a subsequent
> > run of rsync may miss that the file has been modified and hence skip
> > it ?
>
> Unfortunately, yes.


Ok, thanks.

Matt
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>


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Franc
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