[tex-live] tl09 release status: coming up

[Alexander Cherepanov]

Hi Ken!
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:38:15 -0400, Ken Brown <kbrow1i at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>   $ touch a
>>>   $ cp a b
>>>   $ rsync a c
>>>   $ ls -og ?
>>>   -rw-rw-rw- 1 0 Oct 10 16:14 a
>>>   -rw-rw-rw- 1 0 Oct 10 16:14 b
>>>   ----rw---- 1 0 Oct 10 16:14 c
>>>
>>> According to man page rsync in such a case should behave the same as other 
>>> file-copy utilities.
>>>
>>> As a result "rsync -r" on cygwin just makes downloaded files 
>>> unreadable.
>> 
>> I agree that it really looks like a bug. Would anyone like to report it to
>> cygwin maintainers? (Not me, since I don't use nor am familiar with cygwin.)

> rsync works fine in my cygwin systems (both 1.5 and 1.7), so there's no 
> point in reporting it.  Alexander must be using an old version, or else 
> something else on his system is messing up the permissions.

Could be. If you have any ideas what could go wrong please share 
(off-list as it's off-topic here).

Tried with fresh install of cygwin 1.7 -- all the same.

Alexander Cherepanov