On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:19:26PM -0500, Jim Salter wrote: > Jason, this is absolutely great info on the Win32 file locking system > and sounds like a very very interesting patch indeed. > > A quick question, though - how hard would it be to use backup semantics > as a default for an additional mount for the entire filesystem, rather > than trying to tack it into rsync? For example, we already have > /cygdrive/c for the root c: filesystem, what if there were a > /semantics/cygdrive/c to automatically attempt to use backup semantics > if necessary on any file operations made on any of the files on the c: > filesystem...? > > Just a thought. Definitely not a kvetch. But that would be an INSANELY > useful addition to the cygwin package as a whole, and for the purists, > file locking functionality definitely belongs more in the mounting of > the filesystem itself than it does in rsync accessing a filesystem.
I've received a reply from the Cygwin people that suggests Cygwin _always_ uses backup semantics, and a little information about how. It's some pretty hairy code and I'm still deciphering it, but it could be that I was authoring that patch for nothing. I'll post more when I figure it out. -- Jason M. Felice Cronosys, LLC <http://www.cronosys.com/> 216.221.4600 x302 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
