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

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Thu Feb 21 08:41:58 GMT 2008


Vitorio wrote:
> Hello people,
> 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.

There are patches to make rsync use threads instead of fork.  The
patches aren't perfect yet but might help.

-- Jamie


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