Why is -e sent to the remote rsync side?

[Matt McCutchen]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:01 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Personally, and this is not something that any shell can solve, I would 
> love for a way to limit the files that the --server side rsync allows 
> access to.

It's called an rsync daemon.  It can be invoked over ssh; the command to
force in the authorized_keys file is "rsync --server --daemon ." .

Matt