rsync - Nov 2003 - rsync enhancement - check destination before creating file list?

Wouldn't it make sense for rsync to check for the existence of the 
destination directory before creating the file list?  It's a waste to 
stat(2) thousands of files only to abort because the destination doesn't
exist.

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Bob Bagwill <mailto:bagwill@nist.gov>

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:36:20PM -0500, Bob Bagwill
wrote:
> Wouldn't it make sense for rsync to check for the existence of the 
> destination directory before creating the file list?  It's a waste to 
> stat(2) thousands of files only to abort because the destination
doesn't
> exist.
There are lots of things that would make sense to do that
the protocol doesn't support.

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