rsync - Feb 2002 - Solaris, socketpair and chroot

When using rsync 2.5.2 as daemon on a Solaris 2.5.1 box, I cannot
copy data to rsync volumes with option 'use chroot'; I get the
following messages on the client:
  pipe failed in do_recv
  rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at main.c(375)
  rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (69 bytes read so far)

What seems to occur on the server is that socketpair(3)
(not pipe(2)) is called, which needs to open /dev/ticotsord.
Since I do not have a /dev in the chroot directory,
this call fails.

Disabling HAVE_SOCKETPAIR in config.h seems to resolve the
problem. Is there any way this can be worked around more
appropriately (perhaps by calling socketpair() before going
chrooted)?

Thomas.

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    Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG

Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> ...
> What seems to occur on the server is that socketpair(3)
> (not pipe(2)) is called, which needs to open /dev/ticotsord.
> Since I do not have a /dev in the chroot directory,
> this call fails.
Why not just make a /dev in the chroot and put only tioctsord
(or whatever is needed) in there?
> ... Is there any way this can be worked around more
> appropriately (perhaps by calling socketpair() before going
> chrooted)?
That should work also, but I'd go for the /dev/<foo> solution.

rc