Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:09:37 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: colons with rsync Message-ID: <20030611210937.GA25927@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1055363764.2555.130.camel@(none)> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1055363764.2555.130.camel@(none)> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:36:03PM -0500, Ben Smith wrote: >Also, since no one seems to be interested in making this change to >Cygwin itself, is there really a technical reason that rsync can't be >adjusted to work around it? I don't think the current behavior achieves >anything other than strife. I think you missed two key points: 1) The best argument is code. If you think that having cygwin support colons is a great idea, demonstrate your idea with working code. 2) We're a mean bunch. We thrive on strife. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/