On Feb 20 12:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS should be set anyway when opening a file with Cygwin. It's set unconditionally in fhandler_base::open_fs. Well, more exact, fhandler_base::open_fs sets O_DIROPEN which in turn enables FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS in the call to CreateFile in fhandler_base::open. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
