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/