Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:36:03PM -0500, Ben Smith wrote: >Also, since no one seems to be interested in making this change to >Cygwin itself, is there really a technical reason that rsync can't be >adjusted to work around it? I don't think the current behavior achieves >anything other than strife

Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Smith
Thanks for the link. I can see now that this is a hot topic. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00858.html It seems to me that, with respect to the colon issue at least, it is being actively ignored in order to maintain the "File Streams" functionality of NTFS in Cygwin. The question is "W

Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 11 Jun 2003, Ben Smith wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Windows filenames cannot contain ':', so there is no way around this > > limitation in Cygwin, since it uses Windows filenames. > > Igor, > > So does this mean that Cygwin doesn't do any file munging? Is this > something that appli

Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Smith
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Windows filenames cannot contain ':', so there is no way around this > limitation in Cygwin, since it uses Windows filenames. Igor, So does this mean that Cygwin doesn't do any file munging? Is this something that applications are normally left to deal with? I found

Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > I did manage to create a file called ':saved' (on NTFS). It didn't show > > up in directory listings (simple 'ls'), but did in an explicit 'ls > > :saved'. I also could write to it and read from it, so I'm not sure > > exactl

Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I did manage to create a file called ':saved' (on NTFS). It didn't show > up in directory listings (simple 'ls'), but did in an explicit 'ls > :saved'. I also could write to it and read from it, so I'm not sure > exactly where or how the file was created ('mv :saved ./Z

Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Ben Smith wrote: > I am trying to rsync from a SCO box to a Windows 2000 server as a > (temporary) backup while I build a more suitable Linux backup server. > Rsync on SCO reports errors such as the following: > > rsync: recv_generator: mkdir > "var/opt/K/SCO/MMDF/2.43.3b/spoo

colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Smith
I am trying to rsync from a SCO box to a Windows 2000 server as a (temporary) backup while I build a more suitable Linux backup server. Rsync on SCO reports errors such as the following: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "var/opt/K/SCO/MMDF/2.43.3b/spool/mail/:saved": No such file or directory (2) stat