patches or wrappers. One problem with this is that rsync was not
written with this in mind and wasn't very careful about possible stack
overflows etc which could lead to security breaches. This wasn't a
problem when run in the traditional way as any user that can run rsync
can login anyway and cause much more damage that way.
This patch attempts to close possible stack overflow problems. I've
checked for all strcpy(), strcat(), sprintf() and memcpy()
overflows. I would appreciate it if someone else with a devious mind
could also go through the rsync source code and see if there are any
other stack overflows possible. Let me know if you do.
suggested on the list recently. See the man page entry for details but
basically it changes the behaviour so that paths are not stripped,
thus allowing you to specify a single rsync command to sync lots of
directories/files while preserving the full path name of each file.
also fixed a bug in the handling of umasks when both the source and
destination machines are local. We need to reset the umask before the
exec to ensure that the child gets a correct umask.
