Advocacy

2003-03-03 Thread Sheridan, David
I'm saddened to have to post this. After submitting a bug report (complete with source code fix) about rsync, I've now been flamed by various members of the list for having a disclaimer at the bottom of my e-mails. The flames I received were thoroughly sarcastic and accusatory, and suggested that I

RE: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Sheridan, David
> The rsync maintainers are quite considerate about this kind > of thing. I > think they would probably accept this kind of fix into the > upstream sources. Ok, thanks for the info. I've posted the query to the rsync list now. -Dave PLEASE READ: The information contained in this email is conf

cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-02-28 Thread Sheridan, David
I'm using the cygwin version of rsync (2.5.5) and think I've found a bug which is harmless under unix but fatal to cygwin. The bug is also in the latest source version I could find (2.5.6). If I'm trying to take a file from (windows-style) \\share\directory\filename I would specify something like