I don't think there's an objection here to patching *rsync* specially in the cygwin environment -- that would be between you and the rsync port maintainer. The issue is whether or not to make a more general change to cygwin itself, and cgf is just saying that that's hard to do.
Conceivably we could come up with some additional functions that cygwin ports could use if they want to, but "out of box" use of stat needs to replicate full behavior since there's no way to know what a given call of stat really needs ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
