rsync 2.6.3 hang (was rsync 2.6.2 crash)

[tevfik at itefix.no]

Hi,

SSH-tunneling instead of built-in rsync ssh-capability works also quite
well. Have a look at
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=faq&FAQ_op=view&FAQ_id=26 for
an example.

Rgrds Tev

>  > "jim" writes:
>  >
>  > > Thanks for the additional info.
>  > >
>  > > I actually have tried the --no-blocking-io option, but the sync
>  > > still hung.
>  > >
>  > > Since no one on Unix-like platforms are reporting an issue, do you
>  > > think it may be something in the Cygwin compatibility layer?
>  >
>
>  > Yes, I think so.  When I tried to debug this some time ago with rsync
>  > over ssh using cygwin I found that data that was flushed by one end's
>  > rsync never arrived at the other end: the other end was still blocked
>  > on select. I presume that somewhere between rsync/ssh/cygwin, and
>  > cygwin/ssh/rsync on the other end, some buffer was not getting flushed
>  > properly. I don't know anything about cygwin internals, so I didn't
>  > look at this further.
>  >
>
>  If its worth it, I too was getting hangs with rsync and cygwin (latest
>  release of both).  I now actually run rsync over stunnel under windows :
>
>  http://www.stunnel.org/examples/rsync_mike.html
>
>  This seems to work quite well, with no more hangs I have seen :)
>
>  Hope this can be of some help.
>
>   Regards,
>
>   Paul Arch
>
>
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