On Mar 22 13:40, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 3/22/2010 1:37 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Mar 22 10:56, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>>On 3/22/2010 7:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>>On Mar 22 02:04, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>>>>I've been tracking down a problem in xinetd. It appears to be an issue > >>>>>with using MSG_PEEK in recvfrom() on UDP sockets. > >>>> > >>>>Yes, that's a bug in Cygwin. The socket event handling got messed up > >>>>when MSG_PEEK was used. I fixed that in CVS so it will be in 1.7.2. > >>> > >>>Confirmed: fixes both my testcase, and the error in xinetd. Thanks for > >>>the quick turnaround! I was about ready to pull my hair out on this > >> > >>Sure. I'm glad I had a simple testcase for a socket problem. If only > >>somebody would come up with an equally simple testcase for the rsync > >>problem... > > > >I thought the rsync problem was due to the fact that select for write on > >pipes is unreliable.
The problem has been observed with rsync using socketpairs in the first place. The first reports claimed that building rsync with pipes fixed the issue. Only a later report on the list claimed that the problem still exists even with pipes. I don't dare to make any assumption of the actual reason :| Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
