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2003 Dec 30
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The dangers of static buffers in rsync code
...re are various failures happening. The bad part is that they are mostly silent. Most of the bitching is done via "if (verbose > 1)", so with the standard 'rsync -av' there are no indicators that would tell somebody rsync failed to handle a particular file... One way of "unclobbering" this is by forcing another call to f_name after the check_hard_link() call is finished (wither in check_hard_link itself or in recv_generator), but that smells rather nasty... On the other hand, reimplementing f_name to make it sane would require some bigger changes, since f_name() happe...