PATCH/RFC: Another stab at the Cygwin hang problem

[jw schultz]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 06:47:35AM -0400, Tillman, James wrote:
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jw schultz [mailto:jw at pegasys.ws]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:59 AM
> > To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: PATCH/RFC: Another stab at the Cygwin hang problem
> > 
> > 
> > > I can't quite place why but my instincts inform me that you
> > > have latched onto something.  Some sort of one character
> > > buffering error in the io libraries under cygwin.  Most
> > > likely in the windos libs.
> > > 
> > > Well, we have two reports of this fixing the rsync hang
> > > problem when signals failed.  I'd like a little more testing
> > > before mainlining it.
> > 
> > Nope!  This is a no-go.  It intermittantly produces
> > 
> > 	error (10) -- error in socket IO
> > 
> > on both network and local transfers.
> > 
> 
> I guess I'd better double check my processes to make sure that I'm getting a
> satisfactory success rate on my own servers.  If I see any clues, I'll
> report them here.  Any hope for a fix, or does this look like an inherent
> problem in the method being used?

I haven't dug into it yet.  As the patch author i you might
be a bit more familiar with it.

I'm not running cygwin so i never had the hangs.  I only
applied it to test for regression, which is what i found.

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