[Bug 5478] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32)

[Dave Gordon]

On 17/04/18 17:47, just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync
wrote:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5478
> 
> --- Comment #34 from David Nelson <oertls98 at gmail.com> ---
> FYI. Although when rsync ver. 3.0.9 is called in Ubuntu 12.04LTS to "push"
> files to the server, e.g.,
> 
> rsync <pathtobackup>/ server::Backups/ 
> 
> it fails with the error:
> 
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(441)
> [sender=3.0.9 [NB server rsync version is 3.1.0 running in Ubuntu 14.04LTS]
> 
> However, curiously, when issued as a "pull" from the server as:
> 
> rsync client::Sharetobackup/<pathto>/Backups/
> 
> it succeeds.
> 
> Furthermore, pushes from the client work when issued one-letter-as-a-time;
> e.g.,
> 
> for i in {A..Z}; do \
> rsync <pathtobackup>/${i}* server::Backups/ \
> done
> 
> I discovered this while trying to isolate which, if any, of the files were
> causing it to choke. Turns out none of them were, but identifying them all with
> a wildcard * was.

Hi,

did you mean to add this comment to Bug 5478, which had been closed for
~5 years? It looks like it should belong to some other (more recently
active) bug - maybe 2957, 12732, or 13109?

.Dave.