The library I referred to was getopt. It just seems to be trying to be a
bit too clever... kind of like the automatic tuning radios in Hitch
Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I didn't know about the existing oddity in
rsh. Thanks for the education.
Tim Conway
Unix System Administration
Contractor
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:43:28PM -0400, Anthony Heading wrote:
> This is the cygwin build of rsync, with the standard cygwin
> rsh (which is a fairly old GNU inetutils 1.3.2).
A few months ago cygwin switched their getopt code (when they added
getopt support to their library, I think) and this m
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:35:24AM -0600, Tim Conway wrote:
> A few weeks ago, I corrected a guys commandline, wherein a flag came after
> a directory specification, and was informed that new libraries rearrange
> ARGV. I was somewhat abashed, not having known that, but also thought
> that was
A few weeks ago, I corrected a guys commandline, wherein a flag came after
a directory specification, and was informed that new libraries rearrange
ARGV. I was somewhat abashed, not having known that, but also thought
that was a really stupid idea. Now we have to do kludgy workarounds in
orde
Hi,
Not sure when this stopped working, because I'm sure it used to.
This is the cygwin build of rsync, with the standard cygwin
rsh (which is a fairly old GNU inetutils 1.3.2).
~=> rsync --rsh=rsh -vv bibble:
opening connection using rsh bibble rsync --server --sender -vvr .
rsh: unknown opt
