rsync/cwgwin hangs during transfers

Steven Monai steve+rsync at monai.ca
Sat Jan 16 12:30:36 MST 2010


On 2010/01/16 9:34 AM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Max Arnold wrote, on 1/16/2010 12:08 PM:
>>> Rsync 3.0.7 and Cygwin 1.7.1 hangs at random instances. This does not
>>> happen
>>> always and does not happen at all locations.
>> Do you have any antivirus/firewall software installed? I once had
>> weird issues with cwRsync
>> on Windows and this took two days to find that security software
>> intercepted some of the low
>> level win32 api hooks and this interacted badly with cygwin.
> 
> I have antivirus software (eSet), but it worked fine with Cygwin 1.5.x.
> I don't have rights on this machine to toggle virus software settings,
> unfortunately.

ESET's NOD32 is on Cygwin's Big List of Dodgy Apps (BLODA):
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

-SM
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