Windows backup API in rsync port?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
> Windows systems have a great "feature" - even administrators can't 
> access files for which they don't have permissions (I'm not talking 
> about files exclusively opened, which is something else).
> 
> To read files which are normally inaccessible because of insufficient 
> permissions, Windows administrator can use Windows backup API. 
> Unfortunately, rsync Windows port doesn't seem to use this feature.
> 
> 
> There was a similar thread about it 4 years ago - did anything change in 
> rsync from this time?
> 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-February/thread.html#8677

I asked at Cygwin mailing list, and I'm glad to know that this issue is 
fixed in the recent snapshots of Cygwin: just replace your cygwin1.dll 
library with a recent snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and 
rsync on Windows will be able to open the files where Administrator is 
not allowed to.

See the whole thread here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/threads.html#00662

Great!


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org