X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48480A88.9050300@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:20 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: diff: Resource temporarily unavailable References: <20080604075820.22E63844AA@pessard.research.canon.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20080604075820.22E63844AA@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Luke Kendall wrote: > Hi > > We're using a version of Cygwin that's at least a year old. Someone > found today that he can't diff two large files (200MB each) across the > network using Cygwin. The error we get is: > > $ diff //samba/damita-nobackup/chitra/SWFILES/OIP/RF_Testing/OIP01_SWRF_IO.txt //samba/damita-nobackup/chitra/3F01/OIP/RF_Testing/OIP01_HWRF_IO.txt > diff: //samba/damita-nobackup/chitra/SWFILES/OIP/RF_Testing/OIP01_SWRF_IO.txt: Resource temporarily unavailable > > If we copy the files across the network using Cygwin cp and then diff > locally, it does work. > > I had a look at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > but I don't think we fall into that situation. > > I've included a small portion of an strace - is this an interesting > bug, or something that's been fixed a while ago? Why not install a new cygwin (and diff if necessary) package and check it out for yourself? As long as you have the original versions for the newer package(s), you can always reinstall them if you don't like what you see. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/