fixed a bug in handling the -c option and non-regular files. It hadn't

turned up before because Linux had a bug in the handling of NULL
pointers to read()/write() on pipes, so I never noticed the bug in my
testing.

I've also sent a patch to Linus.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/flist.c b/flist.c
index 3e3b3a68..63b86633 100644
--- a/flist.c
+++ b/flist.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ void send_file_entry(struct file_struct *file,int f)
 #endif
 
   if (always_checksum) {
-    write_buf(f,file->sum,csum_length);
+	  write_buf(f,file->sum,csum_length);
   }       
 
   last_mode = file->mode;
@@ -426,10 +426,17 @@ static struct file_struct *make_file(char *fname)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	if (always_checksum && S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
+	if (always_checksum) {
 		file->sum = (char *)malloc(MD4_SUM_LENGTH);
 		if (!file->sum) out_of_memory("md4 sum");
-		file_checksum(fname,file->sum,st.st_size);
+		/* drat. we have to provide a null checksum for non-regular
+		   files in order to be compatible with earlier versions
+		   of rsync */
+		if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
+			file_checksum(fname,file->sum,st.st_size);
+		} else {
+			memset(file->sum, 0, MD4_SUM_LENGTH);
+		}
 	}       
 
 	if (flist_dir) {