Cygwin Rsync 2.5.6 over SSH hangs on Win2k->Win2k

[Tillman, James]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cbarratt at users.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:cbarratt at users.sourceforge.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:48 AM
> To: Tillman, James
> Cc: 'rsync at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: Re: Cygwin Rsync 2.5.6 over SSH hangs on Win2k->Win2k 
> 
> 

[...]

> While I haven't found the root cause (and I don't know any cygwin
> internals), the following workaround solves the problem for me.
> Replace msleep() wit sleep():
> 
>         while ( 1 ) {
>             sleep(1);
>         }
> 
> There's something about signals and msleep() that cygwin 
> doesn't grok...
> 
> Craig
> 

The sleep(1) mod didn't work for me.  I had a hung process within an hour
(processes run every 5 minutes).  I'm going to try applying Anthony
Heading's patch, which was posted earlier this morning (Subject: PATCH/RFC:
Another stab at the Cygwin hang problem) to see if it works for me.  I've
got nothing to lose at this point!

I had been questioning the wisdom of the whole kill/signal usage, myself,
but I'm certainly not experienced enough at this point to have a worthy
opinion in such matters...  There's almost certainly a reason it was done
that way.

jpt