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Re: rsync - file size differences


Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> "Ryan Brothers" <rbro@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I'm running into an issue using rsync-2.6.2-2 on cygwin on Win2k
>> > SP4 . . .  Also, using rsync-2.6.2-1 gives identical files
>> > regardless of the text file option selected - this problem just
>> > started for me after upgrading to rsync-2.6.2-2.
>>
>> This sounds like the same problem I reported last week, where recently
>> on text-mount volumes rsync can't recognise its own results.
>>
>> The only change from 2.6.2-1 to 2.6.2-2 was 'a SECURITY FIX', seems
>> unlikely to provoke a problem in this area . . .
>
> ...unless 2.6.2-2 was compiled/built differently (e.g., with different
> libraries, on a different machine, etc).  That was a WAG, BTW.

Indeed, so I tried rebuilding 2.6.3 locally, same problem :-(

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