Cygwin bug in hosts allow

[Wayne Davison]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:35:49PM -0400, Bill Denney wrote:
> When using cygwin, I tried to specify the subnet mask for the "hosts 
> allow" option in rsyncd.conf with 192.168.1.0/24, but that didn't work. 

Apparently inet_pton() is broken in cygwin.  Under Linux, it returns an
error, and then rsync does its own mask translation.  Under cygwin it
returns a different mask from 255.255.255.0.  I'd suggest filing a bug
report with the cygwin folks.

..wayne..