rsync not working in cygwin 1.78

Hi all, I was not able to find any remedy for the following problem: $ ls -l total 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 martin Kein 5 Jul 19 2010 bla -rw-r--r-- 1 martin Kein 106 Jan 7 17:58 dd.out -rw-r--r-- 1 martin Kein 4 Jul 19 2010 xyz martin@martin004 ~ $ rsync -av bla xyz rsync: Failed to dup/close:

ssh and sshd hanging

Hello all, WinXP SP 3, Cygwin1.dll 1.7.7 (latest stable download), sshd and ssh latest stable. I created a root user (!), empty /var/empty that belongs to root, but deviate (by ssh-host-config) from the standard by Port 22 StrictModes no UsePrivilegeSeparation no Compression no Subsystem