Patch: Better handling for rsync temporary files

[Kevin Korb]

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Suddenly I feel compelled to point out the existence of --temp-dir

On 10/26/11 22:52, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
>> Here's a patch that should handle the above idea:
>>  http://pastebin.com/UTbtFu8Ta
> 
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> Regardless, all your suggested changes still improve the capability of
> rsync to run simultaneously on the same tree, so it sounds good. My
> one niggle is that always keeping the token in the temporary filename
> without any special-case truncation would allow users to have stronger
> guarantees about excluding these files.
> 
> How about rsync trims just the original filename portion, and if it
> reaches zero characters and even '.XXXXXX.rsynctmp' doesn't fit, error
> out. If we want to keep going, rsync could try fewer X's down to zero
> and eventually try the 9 char '.rsynctmp' filename.
> 
> (Well, one problem with the above is the exclude pattern would have to
> be .*rsynctmp, so you could give up at the 11 char '.A.rsynctmp'
> instead.)
> 
> Alex

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