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Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:59:53 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin_attach_fd_to_handle(), mmap()
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:35:30PM -0500, Jason M. Felice wrote:
>I'm working on getting the cygwin port of rsync to be able to back up
>open files.  This requires the FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag.  I've
>got rsync opening the file, and I use cygwin_attach_fd_to_handle() to
>get an fd, but the problem is that cygwin seems to map it as a "basic"
>handle and not a "diskfile" handle, and therefore rsync's mmap fails.

There is no such thing as a "basic handle".  Cygwin returns the handle
of the open file.  That's it.

cgf

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