rsync - Aug 2003 - bug: rsync always writes temp-files to current directory since cvs-20030326

Hi,

The documentation states that rsync writes temp-files to the recieving
directory, unless --temp-dir is specified. This is not true since
cvs-20030326, when receiver.c was modified.
( http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/receiver.c#rev1.44 )

You will get this error when you don't have write access to the
current directory:
  mkstemp .somefile.UQVWQd failed: Permission denied
  rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1045)

IMHO the fix introduced, should either be removed or modified to work as
documented.

Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=192899

best regards
peter

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:59:13PM +0200, Peter Lundkvist
wrote:
> The documentation states that rsync writes temp-files to the recieving
> directory, unless --temp-dir is specified. This is not true since
> cvs-20030326, when receiver.c was modified.
> ( http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/receiver.c#rev1.44 )
I don't see any such change in this revision, and testing shows that the
code is working as expected.
> You will get this error when you don't have write access to the
> current directory:
>   mkstemp .somefile.UQVWQd failed: Permission denied
>   rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1045)
I get no such error.  Note that rsync can report that (pathless) error
when it has done a chdir(), and thus it is not actually complaining
about the current directory when rsync was run (I'll look into changing
that).
> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=192899
I tried to duplicate the bug listed here and was unable to do so.  I
must assume that this bug only exists in the Debian version or that the
destination directory was not writable by you.

..wayne..

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:59:13PM +0200, Peter Lundkvist
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The documentation states that rsync writes temp-files to the recieving
> directory, unless --temp-dir is specified. This is not true since
> cvs-20030326, when receiver.c was modified.
> ( http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/receiver.c#rev1.44 )
> 
> You will get this error when you don't have write access to the
> current directory:
>   mkstemp .somefile.UQVWQd failed: Permission denied
>   rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1045)
> 
> IMHO the fix introduced, should either be removed or modified to work as
> documented.
> 
> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=192899
I cannot reproduce this error.  It seems the user did not
have write permission in
	/var/cache/apt-proxy/non-US/dists/sid/non-US/main/binary-i386/

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