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Try to give a better error message when there is a remote option error.

diff --git a/options.c b/options.c
index 3376cbc98c69fc22eaef3eebf215a82fb291d768..1618ffe74207bdc71a5575a9ad2cb4ba7a1297a4 100644 (file)
--- a/options.c
+++ b/options.c
@@ -306,14 +306,19 @@ static struct poptOption long_options[] = {
 static char err_buf[100];
 
 
+/* We store the option error message, if any, so that we can log the
+   connection attempt (which requires parsing the options), and then
+   show the error later on. */
 void option_error(void)
 {
        if (err_buf[0]) {
                rprintf(FLOG, "%s", err_buf);
                rprintf(FERROR, "%s: %s", RSYNC_NAME, err_buf);
        } else {
-               rprintf(FLOG,"Error parsing options - unsupported option?\n");
-               rprintf(FERROR,"Error parsing options - unsupported option?\n");
+               rprintf (FERROR, "Error parsing options: "
+                        "option may be supported on client but not on server?\n");
+               rprintf (FERROR, RSYNC_NAME ": Error parsing options: "
+                        "option may be supported on client but not on server?\n");
        }
 }