to do this.  This is not used in every case yet -- I've just changed a
few cases that were causing trouble.  Please convert others as you see them.

are given up.

directive, close the log file every time it is open when going to sleep on
the socket.  This allows the log file to get cleaned out by another process.

included or excluded and why.

string pools conflict with the lastdir memory saving tricks.

useful

patch from Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>

this fixes a bug with --backup-dir and -x

added "ignore nonreadable" option (useful for hiding files in public archives)

waitpid()

turns out that when client is talking to a server daemon it never executes
this leg of code.  Oops.  The people who said it made a difference when
they changed the code must have been wrong.