On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:10:39AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > Dave Dykstra wrote: > > While doing the tests we too experienced hangs at the end of copies. > > We were going over openssh from a Solaris 9 box to Windows 2000 > > Cygwin. > > We tried the test from > > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2002-August/008130.html > > but it still experienced hangs. It wasn't clear if the patch reduced > > the frequency or not. > > Data point: I regularly rsync from sources.redhat.com (Linux, I presume. Not > Cygwin, anyway) to my local machine (Cygwin). I have never experienced a > hang.
Since you posted the above message, does that mean you used to experience hangs and that the rsyncs you do now are with the patch in? > > Has *anybody* been able to figure out a fix for this that really > > works? > > It sure would be nice to get something into 2.5.6 but we're about out > > of time for that because I need to put it out this weekend before I > > start a new (temporary) job on Monday. I imagine that the issue I > > was experiencing could be a separate one and this patch really would > > help other hangs people are having; can anybody give me an argument > > for putting in the calls to "shutdown()" anyway? I would make it > > only happen on Cygwin, because it is unknown if they will cause harm > > on other platforms. > > Those platforms would have to be fairly broken. The behaviour of shutdown is > pretty clearly defined. It is a relatively rarely used function, however, so it probably doesn't get much testing. Cygwin/windows is what's really broken and I'd rather not risk all the other ports to suit it. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
