Cygwin issues: modify-window and hangs

Max Bowsher maxb at ukf.net
Sat Feb 1 02:49:51 EST 2003


jw schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:44:58PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> jw schultz wrote:
>>> I'd rather we default modify-window to 1 for windows.
>> 
>> But windows != FAT. Even a Linux system *could* be using FAT. What's
>> wrong with the current state of affairs?
>> It's not like the mailing list (rsync or cygwin) is flooded with
>> messages complaining about this.
> 
> Sorry, i wasn't quite clear.  Also i misremembered cygwin
> having a default modify-window = 2 in 2.5.5 (thanks _WIN32).
> To be clear, here are my preferences in decending order (#1
> being most prefered).
> 
> 1. modify-window = 0 on all platforms

I agree.

Max.



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