Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:22:27AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Igor, > >I think I understood your meaning, and I'm not in favor of placing any >blame on the posters in this matter. As I mentioned in my earlier reply >to David Sheridan, I assumed from the beginning that he had no control >ove

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:29:10AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Chris, > >Clearly this is now an open topic, so... > >Do you have a good way to do this? Igor's suggestion seems sound and >easily implementable, but short of some kind of cooperation from the >sender (in the form of a tag of some

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Igor, I think I understood your meaning, and I'm not in favor of placing any blame on the posters in this matter. As I mentioned in my earlier reply to David Sheridan, I assumed from the beginning that he had no control over that disclaimer. I was really curious if Chris has a way of detecting

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Umm, Randall, I think you've missed the point of my post. I claimed that people should not be blamed for something they have no control over, and suggested a means of giving them the control. It *must* require cooperation from the sender. Should they choose to ignore this control, they'll deserv

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, Clearly this is now an open topic, so... Do you have a good way to do this? Igor's suggestion seems sound and easily implementable, but short of some kind of cooperation from the sender (in the form of a tag of some sort that marks the end of the real content of their posting), it seems

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:45:10AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:22:49 -0500 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am *so* tempted to add a filter to strip this crap out of email sent >> here. > >> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:05:27AM -, Sheridan, David wrote

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:22:49 -0500 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am *so* tempted to add a filter to strip this crap out of email sent > here. > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:05:27AM -, Sheridan, David wrote: > >PLEASE READ: The information contained in this email is confident

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
I am *so* tempted to add a filter to strip this crap out of email sent here. cgf On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:05:27AM -, Sheridan, David wrote: >PLEASE READ: The information contained in this email is confidential >and intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not an intended >recipi

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

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-02-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Sheridan, David wrote: > 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\filena