Added the --write-devices option.

[rsync.git] / rsync.yo

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
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--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ to the detailed description below for a complete description.  verb(
      --fake-super            store/recover privileged attrs using xattrs
  -S, --sparse                turn sequences of nulls into sparse blocks
      --preallocate           allocate dest files before writing
+     --write-devices         write to devices as files (implies --inplace)
  -n, --dry-run               perform a trial run with no changes made
  -W, --whole-file            copy files whole (w/o delta-xfer algorithm)
      --checksum-choice=STR   choose the checksum algorithms
@@ -1221,6 +1222,16 @@ such as named sockets and fifos.
 
 dit(bf(-D)) The bf(-D) option is equivalent to bf(--devices) bf(--specials).
 
+dit(bf(--write-devices)) This tells rsync to treat a device on the receiving
+side as a regular file, allowing the writing of file data into a device.
+
+This option implies the bf(--inplace) option.
+
+Be careful using this, as you should know what devices are present on the
+receiving side of the transfer, especially if running rsync as root.
+
+This option is refused by an rsync daemon.
+
 dit(bf(-t, --times)) This tells rsync to transfer modification times along
 with the files and update them on the remote system.  Note that if this
 option is not used, the optimization that excludes files that have not been