Wget appears to still work. -- Gary R. Van Sickle
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?) > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:33:00PM -0400, Philip Gladstone wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Ok. I've changed the algorithm in select. It only opens a DGRAM > >>socket now, one time per thread. It uses this to terminate > the socket > >>thread, if necessary. This socket is never closed until the thread > >>terminates. > >> > >>It sounds like this would more or less fix the problem that you're > >>seeing. Would you mind trying a new snapshot? > >> > >>http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > > >This fixes it for me! Thanks immensely. > > That's good news! Thanks for the fast feedback. > > I've cc'ed the cygwin mailing list since this has been a long > standing problem. > > For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks > like a change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded > "slows down to a crawl with Symantec AntiVirus" problem. > > This may also improve the performance of things that use > sockets slightly. > > So, I'd appreciate reports on the latest snapshot. Does it > fix any problems? Cause any problems? No change? > > In this one case, I'd like to hear "me toos" since the change > was to a fundamental part of cygwin and it is in socket code, > which has proved to be problematic. So, I'd like to know if > things still work on Windows 9x and all flavors of NT. > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > "Things" would be, openssh, telnet, ftp, rsync, etc. > Anything which uses sockets or communicates via TCP/IP. > > I've reset the reply-to for this message to the cygwin > mailing list, so if there is further Cygwin/X discussion > necessary, please make sure that it goes to the cygwin-xfree > mailing list. > > cgf > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
