Marc Schneiders wrote:
>
> Trying to use cvs to get a working copy of /usr/src from the
> /home/ncvs of one machine to another, cvs just hangs. Top displays as
> state for cvs `piperd'. I have not been able to find this documented
> in the top man page. A guess: pipe reading data? In my case it
> indicates cvs or ssh hanging :-( There are no data read anymore in any
> case (for which top seems to print `getblk' or `RUN' during the short
> time cvs works). Things remain like this until I kill cvs through ^C.
`piperd' means a process is reading from a pipe. In your case, maybe
reading from a pipe is causing a hang. Of course, the inverse of
piperd is pipewt, I believe, which means the process is writing to a
pipe.
- Donn
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