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Has any progress ever been made towards fixing the problem causing rsync processes to hang in the cygwin environment? I've tried just using Unison in the windows environment, since it has a native port, but, um. Unison is probably great for what it IS intended for, but it absolutely sucks nuts as a backup solution (has a tendency to choke and cancel the ENTIRE PROCESS without synching

I'm running rsync 2.5.6 on windows (via cygwin) and I've had other processes try to open the same files as rsync, but could not get through sometimes. Does rsync place a shared lock or an exclusive lock on the files it will copy from? I checked into the sources but did not find any use of flock() which could specify either LOCK_SH or LOCK_EX, so I'm not sure what the open() does when