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Hi -

I've been trying to get rdiff-backup working under cygwin as well. I get
the same problems as you see. From what I can see fsync works under
windows/cygwin but doesnt work when the file is open read only:

So this doesnt work:

echo testing > fsync-testfile
python -c 'import os; os.fsync(os.open("fsync-testfile", os.O_RDONLY))'
rm fsync-testfile

but this does:

echo testing > fsync-testfile
python -c 'import os; os.fsync(os.open("fsync-testfile", os.O_RDWR))'
rm fsync-testfile


HTH

Marcus

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Marcus Williams <marcus < at > quintic.co.uk>
wrote the following on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:28:35 +0000

I've been trying to get rdiff-backup working under cygwin as well. I get
the same problems as you see. From what I can see fsync works under
windows/cygwin but doesnt work when the file is open read only:

So this doesnt work:

echo testing > fsync-testfile
python -c 'import os; os.fsync(os.open("fsync-testfile", os.O_RDONLY))'
rm fsync-testfile

but this does:

echo testing > fsync-testfile
python -c 'import os; os.fsync(os.open("fsync-testfile", os.O_RDWR))'
rm fsync-testfile

The devel version tries to fsync RDWR if RDONLY fails, you may want to
test with that.


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Ben Escoto