rsync - Dec 2010 - rsync server: "incoming chmod" usage

Hello :-)

According to my reading of the rsyncd.conf man page, "incoming chmod"
accepts comma-separated "chmod" strings as defined by the chmod(1) man
page
optionally prefixed by D or F to make them apply to directories or files.

The local chmod(1) man page does not mention strings.  It refers to modes
which may be symbolic or octal/numeric.  Accordingly I tried
incoming chmod = D755,F644
but this resulted in 'Invalid "incoming chmod" directive:
D755,F644'.
Should I report an issue with the rsync man pages suggesting that either
"strings" is changed to "symbolic modes" or that rsync is
enhanced to
support octal/numeric modes?

Next I tried the symbolic equivalent
incoming chmod = Du=rwx,g=rx,o=rx,Fu=rw,g=r,o=r 
This time there was no error message from rsync but neither did the
directories get rx permission; less permissions were set than without the
"incoming chmod".

Next I tried
incoming chmod = Du+rwx,g+rx,o+rx,Fu+rw,g+r,o+r
This set 755 on the directories but also on the files.

Netsearching for usage examples I only found "incoming chmod" only
used with
symbolic modes with + or - so I tried
incoming chmod = Du+rwx,g+rx,o+rx,Fa-x
This gave the desired result.

Versions
=======Server:
Slackware64 13.1
rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes

Client
Windows XP Pro SP2
Running in VirtualBox 3.2.12 virtual machine
cwrsync 4.0.5

Should I report the above as a defect?

Best      

Charles

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:54 AM, <rsync at catcons.co.uk> wrote:
> but this resulted in 'Invalid "incoming chmod" directive:
D755,F644'.
>
I've been meaning to make octal numbers work with --chmod, so I just checked
that into git on the master (3.1.0dev).

incoming chmod = Du=rwx,g=rx,o=rx,Fu=rw,g=r,o=r
>
Most of those apply to both directories and files, and thus override each
other.  I think you want this:

  incoming chmod = Du=rwx,Dgo=rx,Fu=rw,Fgo=r

Or, specified another way:

  incoming chmod = a=r,u+w,D+x

..wayne..
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