Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-18 Thread Brett Serkez
Scott, > Thanks for the suggestion. Switching from socketpair() to > pipe() does let ssh get going, but rsync later runs into > problems. A few minutes into the transfer it just hangs. I've actually been able to run fine once past the initial hang, but I've seen reports of rand

Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-17 Thread Scott Bolte
Brett, Thanks for the suggestion. Switching from socketpair() to pipe() does let ssh get going, but rsync later runs into problems. A few minutes into the transfer it just hangs. Since I exercised ssh by transferring 16MB files back and forth for 1

Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-17 Thread Brett Serkez
Scott, > I started this investigation when rsync spawning ssh hung. By using > the -vv verbose option I could tell that rsync was starting ssh. It is difficult to tell if this is the same or similar to the rsync hang I experienced: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg01096.html It seemi

rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-17 Thread Scott Bolte
I've found an rsync problem that might be another data point for the fork() (or exec()?) problems mentioned on the cygwin mailing list last fall. On one of my systems rsync hangs after it forks a cygwin program. Surprisingly, when it forks some native windows program, it completes. I started this