Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> If you want, download http://wpkg.org/test.7z
>
> You will need 7zip to extract it (or something compatible).

Such as the cygwin p7zip program, or the native programs distributed by 
the upstream 7zip project (google...)

However, be warning: 7zip -- and the 7zip format -- contain NO 
provisions for storing unix style permissions, unix style ACLs, nor 
Windows/NTFS style ACLs.

Therefore, if Corinna 'unpacks' you test file, she will NOT necessarily 
be testing your exact scenario.  So, you need to use a tool that cares 
for such things (the exact tool will depend on the OS (and cygwin, if 
OS=win) for your server, and for your client.

I point this out, because it may not be a UTF filename encoding problem 
at all. You just might not have the appropriate permissions to access 
the (remote, local) files.

So:

> It looks like it looses the special character in tar or zip, but
> 7zip can store it just fine.

So: use 7zip and keep the encoding -- but lose the permissions. Use 
tar/zip, and keep the permissions but lose the encodings.

Maybe you should post the output, on your (remote?) system, of
getfacl -f emptydir
getfacl -f file-in-empty-dir

--
Chuck

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