Brian Dessent wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: > >> My first questions: >> What the reason for not copying the attributes "HS"? > > rsync is a POSIX program. It sees everything in terms of POSIX. That > means it sees a file mode, such as 0644, 0755, etc. It reads a mode on > the source and sets that same mode on the dest, that is it. It has no > idea what H/S/R/A attributes mean or that they even exist. > > The A attribute gets set on the dest file simply because that is the > default behavior when creating a file. The R attribute gets set because > Cygwin can map that bit easily onto the POSIX "u=w" mode bit, such that > setting a mode like 0444 will cause R to be set and setting 0644 will > cause R to be reset. But S and H have no such easy mapping onto POSIX > modes, so they aren't propagated. > >> If I try "-X" I get an error "rsync: extended attributes are not >> supported on this client" > > Any EA support in rsync would most likely be some form of POSIX EA > anyway, not R/H/S/A, so I don't think this really matters. > >> The same behavior occurs with a file test.txt which is owned by: >> ls -al shows - user mkgroup >> ls -an shows - 1006 513 > > <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod> > > Brian
Thanks Brian! It seems I had run "bin\mkgroup -l > etc\passwd" instead "bin\mkgroup -l > etc\group". Now it works. It seems that rsync (or cygwin) set the process-owner as file-owner if it can not find the uid/gid within /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Now I will try the game from windows client to linux server and return. br Matthias -- Don't panic -- 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/
