Is there a way to force rsync to be monothreaded (ie to don't fork)?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Feb 21 07:27:06 GMT 2008


On Thursday 21 February 2008, Vitorio wrote:
> Hello people,

in the future, please do not hijack threads

> the questio is all in the subject: Is there a way to force rsync to
> be monothreaded (ie to don't fork)?
> The reason for this is that the Carbon API isn't fork-safe and
> fonction calls I do to the pretiger resource fork randomly don't work
> when rsync forks, what's annoying.

this would be useful also on platforms which lack fork() such as no-mmu 
linux ... i havent had a chance (or request) to dig into this
-mike
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