--daemon doesn't respect --address?

Benjamin R. Haskell
2010-01-22T22:46:24Z

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Ali Polatel wrote:

> I've noticed a weirdness in rsync.
> Let me explain it briefly with an example.
> Below is a test script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cat >rsyncd.conf <<EOF
> address = localhost
> use chroot = no
> hosts allow = localhost
> [from]
>     path = /tmp/from
>     read only = yes
>     comment = r/o
> EOF
>
> RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG="rsync --address=localhost --config=rsyncd.conf
--daemon" \
> rsync -av --address=localhost rsync://localhost/from to
>
> Looking at the code the daemon should bind to localhost not 0.0.0.0.
> But strace shows the opposite:
> alip at harikalardiyari> strace -fe bind ./test.sh
> ...
> [pid 7279] bind(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0),
sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0
> ...
>
> Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding something?