batch diffs

2002-06-02 Thread Kalev Soikonen
I needed a tool to produce diffs of binary volumes, and to apply them as patches accordingly. So I tried the 'batch mode' that was added to rsync, but it invariably segfaulted on reading the batches... $ sh foo.rsync_argvs foo.rsync_argvs: line 1: 8971 Segmentation fault

Re: batch diffs

2002-06-02 Thread Jos Backus
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:40:34PM +0300, Kalev Soikonen wrote: Digging around in the sources (uhg), I found that this occurs because... batch.c line 485 dereferences s-sums[i] which is NULL, because... generator thinks it can disable_deltas_p() when batches are read. Ouch. This sounds

General speed question

2002-06-02 Thread David Arnold
We have some speed/performance issues: We have a 100M fullduplex private network setup to handle rsync transfers to our mirror server with a command like: time rsync -e ssh -avzl --delete --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync \ --exclude .netscape/cache/ --delete-excluded \

(fwd from t216@zkb.ch) IBM Mainframe port for rsync

2002-06-02 Thread Martin Pool
How cool! -- Martin ---BeginMessage--- Hi, Martin! I have ported rsync to OS/390 Open Edition, currently named z/OS Unix System Services. Using my port, it is possible to transfer text files between IBM mainframe and UNIX machines, having automatic code page conversion which is for what I