Try my experimental rsync with xattr support

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:36 -0400, Jay Fenlason wrote:
> I've written a patch to rsync that adds support for transferring posix
> extended attributes.  I've put the srpm and an i386 binary rpm at
> http://people.redhat.com/fenlason/rsync/rsync-2.6.3-2.{src,i386}.rpm
> These rpms also contain the acl patch.

This works for me too.  Nice!  One note though - we will want to extend
the patch at some point to make it use setfscreatecon for
security.selinux attributes to avoid a race condition where permissions
could be wider than necessary.

> To enable the transfer of extended attributes you need to use the new
> -X option.  

I wonder - is there a reason not to make -a imply -XA?