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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:01:40 -0800
From: linda w <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Subject: Re: rsync horribly broken
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If that's the case, how did rsync generate the list of files to copy?  
Why would rsync
not be able to read them but cp would?  Seems like an odd restriction 
"rsync can read
and compare network paths, but can't actually open the paths to copy 
them because
it can't understand the paths that it created through it's own iteration.

2nd, how would half the files succeed/compare successfully after being 
copied via "cp".
Are you saying other linux commands have special processing in them to 
handle "//"?  I've
just always assumed that was handled transparently by the cygwin path layer?

Rsync's handling of the paths is "inconsistent" with other utils under 
cygwin, thus the
reporting of it as a bug.

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:53:41PM -0800, linda w wrote:
>  
>
>>Went to copy a dir:
>>
>>rsync pooped all over the place:
>>law> rsync -avv --progress //ishtar/root/usr/src/packages/BUILD/dictd-1.4.9 /usr/src/packages/BUILD/
>>    
>>
>
>I doubt that rsync understands Windows '//' style paths.
>
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