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Rsync is reportedly causing backups to fail since maintainer began AI code experiment
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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It looks like one of the issues is around openat2 which has only been around for 6 years or so. Rsync assumes that it's available and has no fall back. I'm not sure what openat2 is or what was used before or why the change was made. I'm guessing it was an error but as ai was deemed to be involved everyone lost their shit