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I don't think there's an objection here to
patching *rsync* specially in the cygwin
environment -- that would be between you
and the rsync port maintainer. The issue
is whether or not to make a more general
change to cygwin itself, and cgf is just
saying that that's hard to do.

Conceivably we could come up with some
additional functions that cygwin ports
could use if they want to, but "out of
box" use of stat needs to replicate
full behavior since there's no way to
know what a given call of stat really
needs ...

Eliot Moss

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