Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:20:32 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: rsync colon in filename to MSWin fails Message-ID: <a9f4a3860906081220m7dec73fj932885d44bab6bed@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860906081219j656cea8el734dc1aa7f5533a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080919123750.GA84143@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <87skrwjb9d.fsf@kobe.laptop> <a9f4a3860906081219j656cea8el734dc1aa7f5533a3@mail.gmail.com>
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Dagnabbit! Meant to also send this to the list. Kurt On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:28, Giorgos Keramidas<keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:37:50 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.= uk> wrote: >> I cannot trasfer a file with a colon via rsync to a Win box. >> I've rsync-3.0.4 on the FBSD (sending side) and rsync-2.6.9 >> under cygwin on Win (receiving side). I'm not sure what the >> error message means: >> >> % rsync ./http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico mexas@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: >> rsync: rename "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mexas/My Documents/wor= k/.http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico.8dBX2K" -> "http:__en.wikipedia.org_= favicon.ico": No such file or directory (2) >> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)= (code 23) at main.c(1040) [sender=3D3.0.4] >> >> Note the extra dot before the file name, and extra suffix at the >> end. Is this the expected behaviour? > > Yes, this is the expected broken behavior of Windows. =C2=A0The ':' chara= cter > cannot be used in a normal filename in Windows. =C2=A0The bug goes way ba= ck, > when DOS developers chose to use ':' to denote 'drive names'. > >> However, to another FBSD box transfer is fine: >> >> % rsync ./http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico mexas@zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz: >> % > > UNIX only reserves '/' as the path separator (and in some cases the '\0' > character for the end-of-fiename string marker). =C2=A0So the ':' charact= er > is valid for file names or directory names. > >> Is this something to do with Windows, or old rsync version on cygwin? > > Yes, it has to do with Windows. It does indeed have to do with Windows - see this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx However, there's another thing to know about the use of colons in file names, and it's not simply to do with driver letters - NTFS has a facility called Alternate Data Streams, which was implemented to support Macintoshes, originally. See this article for a start: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364404(VS.85).aspx
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