Hi, It was reported in the past: http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg03306.html http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg05701.html I remmeber there was a cygwin patch , but lost the link. Please help Rami -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/