Question about cygwin + rsync and file permissions

[Christian Franke]

On 2010-09-16 Saxon, Will wrote:
> I am trying to copy files from a Linux machine to Windows using rsync. I am using rsync 3.0.7 and cygwin 1.7.5.
>
> The source files on the linux machine are all owned by root:root with mode 0755. When I copy them with the following command:
>
> 	rsync -clrtv --chmod=ugo=rwX rsync://<user>@linux/path/to/files /cygdrive/d/path/to/destination
>
> I get the files, but the user who performs the copy ends up with strange permissions on them. There are two 'special' permissions entries, one with a list of denied permissions and the other with a list of permitted ones.
>
> Denied permissions:
> Traverse Folder / Execute File
> List Folder / Read Data
> Read Extended Attributes
> Create Files / Write Data
> Create Folders / Append Data
> Write Extended Attributes
>
>    

Workaround: Add -p, --perms option to rsync command.

Analysis and patch (no reply so far):
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00429.html


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Christian Franke


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