On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > I am trying to restart getting rsync to run on OpenVMS, and find a way > around the fork() issue, posibly using POSIX threads.
It occurs to me that i may have been overly encouraging in my last followup. Getting rsync to work using threads, whether pthreads or a superior form, will require enormous intrusive changes to the code. While the rsync team has looked favourably on that as a goal the huge changes to the codebase needed to accomplish it make acceptance of patches in that direction unlikely. We don't want crufty half-measures. That the platforms where fork() presents an issue and where pipes have performance limitations appear to either be legacy systems or have an viable guest environment does not much help your cause. I do not know but if OpenVMS support is a problem for rsync proper you might wish to look at pysync or unison which might meet your immediate needs. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html