Hi there,
I already asked the list about the problems with sockets on FreeBSD (see
here: http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg08121.html).
I adopted Andrew Flury's patch to the recent CVS version of rsync:
Index: rsync.h
==================================================================RCS file:
/cvsroot/rsync/rsync.h,v
retrieving revision 1.155
diff -r1.155 rsync.h
134a135,138> #ifdef HAVE_SYS_UN_H
> #include <sys/un.h>
> #endif
>
Index: syscall.c
==================================================================RCS file:
/cvsroot/rsync/syscall.c,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -r1.27 syscall.c
70a71,98>
> #if HAVE_MKFIFO
> if (S_ISFIFO(mode))
> return mkfifo(pathname, mode);
> #endif
> #if (HAVE_SYS_UN_H && HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H)
> if (S_ISSOCK(mode)) {
> int sock;
> struct sockaddr_un saddr;
>
> if (strlen(pathname) + 1 > sizeof(saddr.sun_path)) {
> errno = ENAMETOOLONG; return -1;
> }
>
> saddr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
> strncpy(saddr.sun_path, pathname, sizeof(saddr.sun_path));
>
> if ((sock = socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == -1) {
> return -1;
> }
> unlink(pathname);
> if ((bind(sock, (struct sockaddr*)&saddr, sizeof(saddr))) == -1) {
> return -1;
> }
> close(sock);
> return do_chmod(pathname, mode);
> }
> #endif
--
Regards,
Dominik
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