Dave Dykstra wrote: > 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?
No, all I did was translate a description of what to change into an actual .patch file. I have experienced connection reset by peer issues on Cygwin, but only on file listing, never on actual transfers. I'm using the current Cygwin release (rsync-2.5.5-2). That is rsync-2.5.5, with an added msleep(30) which is intended to deal with a possible problem with signals in Cygwin. >>> 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. Understandable. Anyway, since rsync on Cygwin is currently behaving perfectly for me, I don't really have much to say in this discussion. 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
