I've used Cygwin for several years now, and have read this mailing list
for quite some time. When I encountered the rsync problem, I searched
mailing lists as well as Google to find the solution, couldn't find a
definitive answer, and eventually found one myself that worked, so I
thought I'd post it (as many other people had reported similar problems
in the archives) in order to help.
I almost didn't email the list with this solution because I couldn't
remember whether or not to include the output of cygcheck as an
attachment or as part of the body. I looked on the mailing list webpage
on cygwin.com, and couldn't see any info, so I decided to put it in the
body. I should have looked further, but I figured it wouldn't be a big
deal. Of course, I chose the wrong way, and got flamed.
I think the people I work with would think of me as a nice guy. I hope
this comment doesn't get me blocked from the cygwin list ;-) Normally I
ignore such things, but I felt compelled because I have seen many other
messages with the following content...
PLEASE include the generated files 'cygcheck.txt' *as an attachment*,
and NOT in the body of the mail message.
If you don't believe me visit http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ and type as an
attachment in the search box. I got 2862 hits.
This makes me believe you've been subscribed to the mailing list for quite
some time, but may not have actually read many messages. I can understand
this. It's an active list. So I thought I would help by pointing this out.
On the other hand, now I understand the WJM philosophy, because in this case
it worked...
I now know the right way.
You may ask yourself why I bothered replying to this post. We'll you made
another minor mistake by adding my address to email distribution list. I
obviously read the mailing list and this simply resulted in me getting two
copies of the same messages. I hope pointing this out doesn't seem too mean.
Imagine if you would have done this to cfg!
Anyway, I hope that my simple patch can help someone else in the future,
and if the additional body of my message bothered anyone, I apologize.
I hope you helped someone too. I'm sure you did. Just ignore the mean people
on the list, but use their advice to avoid further meanness.
Pete
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