Commit 813d2d10 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Mention the change for protocol 30.

parent 86eb9f95
......@@ -3,21 +3,22 @@ basically a summary of clientserver.c and authenticate.c.
-- Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
$Id$
This is the protocol used for rsync --daemon; i.e. connections to port
873 rather than invocations over a remote shell.
When the server accepts a connection, it prints a greeting
@RSYNCD: <version>
@RSYNCD: <version>.<subprotocol>
where <version> is the numeric version; currently 24. It follows this
with a free text message-of-the-day. It expects to see a similar
greeting back from the client.
where <version> is the numeric version (see PROTOCOL_VERSION in rsync.h)
'.' is a literal period, and <subprotocol> is the numeric subprotocol
version (see SUBPROTOCOL_VERSION -- it will be 0 for final releases).
Protocols prior to 30 only output <version> alone. The daemon expects
to see a similar greeting back from the client. For protocols prior to
30, an absent ".<subprotocol>" value is assumed to be 0. For protocol
30, an absent value is a fatal error. The daemon then follows this line
with a free-format text message-of-the-day (if any is defined).
The server is now in the connected state. The client can either send
the command
......@@ -75,8 +76,13 @@ stay tuned (or write it yourself!).
------------
Protocol version changes
25 (2001-08-20, 2.4.7pre2)
30 (2007-10-04, 3.0.0pre1)
The use of a ".<subprotocol>" number was added to
@RSYNCD: <version>.<subprotocol>
25 (2001-08-20, 2.4.7pre2)
Send an explicit "@RSYNC EXIT" command at the end of the
module listing. We never intentionally end the transmission
by just closing the socket anymore.
Send an explicit "@RSYNC EXIT" command at the end of the
module listing. We never intentionally end the transmission
by just closing the socket anymore.
Markdown is supported
0% or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment