Rsync and Outrage
st3fan
46 points
7 comments
June 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
CaptainFever
It's sad that the outrage posts got hundreds of comments while this article, from the maintainer explaining the CVEs and test suites, only has this singular comment and is already on the second page. A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.
ChrisArchitect
Related: Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705
happymellon
A bit of a mixed one here. The vibe coding got the project attention and it looks like he's going to get the help he needed. However the "outrage", if you even call it that, wasn't entirely misplaced when pretty basic bugs were introduced by this, such as: Can't use rsync with absolute paths: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/922 Links mode is broken: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/915 The scale of the commits, and rewriting the entire testing framework was pretty big for a "bugfix" revision.