Is there a way to get an rsync client to communicate over stdin/stdout?

[Kevin Korb]

Take a look at the lsh scripts that come with rsync.

On 10/10/2018 02:53 PM, Parke via rsync wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to get an rsync client to communicate over stdin/stdout?
> 
> I found these two emails from 2004.  The second email mentions that
> there might be a patch.
> 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg09392.html
> https://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg09427.html
> 
> Is anyone aware of a way to do this?  Or of a published patch that does it?
> 
> I figured I would ask before modifying the rsync source code myself.
> 
> (Obviously, there would need to be some mechanism for the rsync client
> to output the command line arguments for the rsync server.  My use
> case is I have a Python script creating and managing pipes.  Python
> will Popen the rsync client, and then I want the rsync client to use
> the pipes [probably stdin and stdout] given to it by Python.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Parke
> 

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