using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo@wpkg.org
Fri Apr 4 12:14:00 GMT 2008


Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
>> On Apr  3 13:10, Brian Dessent wrote:
>>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>
>>>> So once Cygwin learns how to speak UTF-8, I will finally be able to
>>>> backup all Windows files... :)
>>> Set CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 to enable UTF-8 support.
>>
>> ...and set LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8, otherwise multibyte/wide char aware
>> application don't convert UTF-8 strings correctly from multibyte to
>> wide char and vice versa.
> 
> It works, but again, only locally.
> 
> Is there a way to tell these variables to a cygwin service (i.e., rsyncd 
> started with cygrunsrv?).
> 
> I tried to set them as a global variable (System -> Advanced -> 
> Environment variables), started new console, restarted rsyncd service 
> with cygrunsrv, but it doesn't have any effect on rsyncd service - files 
> with UTF-8 characters still fail to transfer (file has vanished).
> 
> This time, I used rsync 3.0.0 binary on a Linux server, so it's not a 
> problem with an old protocol etc.

Probably the whole Windows machine needs to be restarted if we add new 
system variables?

Even if the service is restarted, it doesn't see new variables. So all 
services depend on some other process which is already running, it seems.

Hm.

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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