Ben Anderson
2007-Oct-24 05:33 UTC
Are extended attributes supported under cygwin for rsync 3.0 pre2 ?
Hello, I'm using a Cygwin environment to build an rsync.exe using the 3.0 pre-2 release of rsync. No problem there if I just do "./configure", then "make"... everything works great. However, when I run: "./configure --enable-xattr-support" I get a message saying: "Failed to find extended attribute support" I also see in the sysxattrs.c file that there are coded functions for Linux, OSX and FreeBSD... all others result in a compile error of "You need to create xattr compatibility functions." Does that mean that (for now) there's no extended attribute support for Windows (and thus no support of --fake-super, etc.)? If that's the case (i.e., it's not currently supported), is there planned support xattrs under Cygwin, and will it be complete? (It would be great to be able to rsync files from a Windows box to a Linux box and preserve all Windows ACL's, ownership, xattrs, policy info, etc. for the file so that when it's restored, all that gets restored with it). Thanks much, Ben Anderson
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