rsync - Jul 2009 - are partial files always deleted on interruption?

The manual says that a file being transfered is removed if rsync gets
an interruption and --partial is not used or implied by other options
like partial-dir or delay-updates. However I've found that a file was
left after interruption, with a zero size. Would it be possible that
rsync doesn't delete the partial file if it's not yet written to it?
This is 3.0.6 on linux. Both processes were killed with the same
command, kill pid1 pid2.

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:32:29PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho
wrote:
> Both processes were killed with the same command, kill pid1 pid2.
A SIGTERM (the default kill signal) should be caught by rsync, allowing
it to cleanup before it exits.
> However I've found that a file was left after interruption, with a
> zero size.
What kind of file?  A temp file, or the destination file?  You didn't
use --inplace, right?  Rsync 2.6.8 had a bug where it could leave a temp
file when interrupted, but I don't see any such problem with 3.0.6. 

..wayne..