Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:59:53 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin_attach_fd_to_handle(), mmap() Message-ID: <20040220175953.GA13066@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040220173530 DOT GI813 AT cronosys DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040220173530.GI813@cronosys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- 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/