Wayne, Hopefully this will turn out to be unfounded like my concern about the hanging, but...I'm wondering whether anyone other than you understands the rsync source code well enough to maintain it in the event that, for some reason, you no longer did. After two years, I understand some parts of the code pretty well and can figure out most of the remainder when I need to. However, there are some regions, such as the I/O code and the incremental-recursion file-list code, where my understanding is shaky: while I might be able to read through them and mostly see what the code is doing, any change I made might break things in complex ways. I certainly don't feel that I could competently maintain those areas of rsync. ?I realize that your job is to produce an rsync that works, not necessarily one that I can understand. Quite possibly I am just out of my depth. Is there someone else listening who would be able to maintain rsync? Matt