rsync - Jan 2008 - internal abbrev error! ?

Hello,

I'm trying the latest rsync(3.0.0prev7) on Mac OS 10.5.1 and getting the
following error:

rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 887 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe
(32)
recv_xattr_request: internal abbrev error!
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (26242 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600)
[sender=3.0.0pre7]

Can someone explain what an internal abbrev error is?

The rsync is to an attached firewire disk using:
  rsync --acls --xattrs --fake-super -a -v -exclude EXCLUDE
--link-dest=LINKDIR  SRCDIR  DESTDIR

Thanks in advance.
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:41:33AM +0000, Max Lane
wrote:
> Can someone explain what an internal abbrev error is?
The internal code that that is trying to request the contents of a large
xattr value from the sender is confusing the receiver somehow.  I have
an idea of what may be the problem, and will check into it soon.

..wayne..

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:22:27PM -0800, Wayne Davison
wrote:
> I have an idea of what may be the problem, and will check into it
> soon.
The latest dev version now has this fixed, including git & nightly tar
file.  Thanks for the report!

..wayne..