On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:44:37PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
> $ rsync -auv \
> ftp.funet.fi::CPAN/modules/by-category/05_Networking_Devices_IPC/Net/* . \
> | grep -v MOTD:
Cockpit error.
This isn't DOS. Don't use * when you want the all directory contents.
rsync -auv
ftp.funet.fi::CPAN/modules/by-category/05_Networking_Devices_IPC/Net/ .
Will work correctly and is safe from the local shell
globbing which would have given you an error message had you
been using csh with default options.
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1598 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
>
> This is because the array used to hold the expanded filename glob (argv in
> rsync_module(), clientserver.c) is only 1000 entries in size, and the above
> archive directory contains more than 1000 files. argv should probably be
> allocated with malloc and grown as necessary with realloc. I'm happy to
> submit a patch if that is acceptable.
>
> Please reply direct as I'm not ton the mailing list,
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