using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

According to http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html:

   Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style paths, where directory
   delimiters may be either forward or back slashes. UNC pathnames
   (starting with two slashes and a network name) are also supported.


However, this doesn't seem to work with rsync.


rsync will fail when sing Win32-style paths (it tries to connect via SSH):

$ rsync -v C:\1 C:\2
The source and destination cannot be both remote.
rsync error: syntax or usage eror (code 1) at 
/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/main.c(1068) [receiver=2.6.9]


It works fine with cygwin paths:

$ rsync -v /cygdrive/c/1 /cygdrive/c/2
1

sent 150 bytes  received 42 bytes  384.00 bytes/sec
total size is 68  speedup is 0.35


Why does it fail with Win32-paths?

Is is possible to use rsync.exe with Win32 and/or UNC paths?

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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