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. > 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. Max. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
