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From: Scott Bolte <listS+cygwin AT niss DOT com>
To: "Brett Serkez" <techie AT serkez DOT net>
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Subject: Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:25:42 -0600
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	Brett,

	Thanks for the suggestion.  Switching from socketpair() to
	pipe() does let ssh get going, but rsync later runs into
	problems. A few minutes into the transfer it just hangs.

	Since I exercised ssh by transferring 16MB files back and
	forth for 10 minutes, I'm inclined to point the finger at
	rsync.  However, I use the same version of rsync on another
	system where it runs like a champ. That doesn't leave any
	suspects.

	I'm still puzzled as to why even true.exe hung. I did not
	want to make my problem report even longer, but I had another
	test program which was literally "int main() { exit(0) }",
	just in case true.exe was not as minimal as expected. That
	test program also hung when spawned by rsync.

		Scott

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:11:40 -0500, "Brett Serkez" wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> <snip>
> > I started this investigation when rsync spawning ssh hung. By using
> > the -vv verbose option I could tell that rsync was starting ssh.
> 
> It is difficult to tell if this is the same or similar to the rsync hang
> I experienced:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg01096.html
> 
> It seemingly hangs in the same/similar place, in my case I substituted
> the use of a local pipe for a local socket to resolve.
> 
> > However, a netstat on the remote host did not show any connection.
> > Btw, when I call ssh directly it works just fine.
> 
> Yes, same here.
> 
> Brett
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Brett C. Serkez, Techie
> 

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