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Subject: Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood
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On Apr 27 07:50, Brett Serkez wrote:
> > If there is something I can do in order to narrow down the problem,
> > please let me know. This issue has already been discussed on the rsync
> > list (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2957) and Wayne from
> > the rsync project was quite sure about what he called the "Cygwin's
> > pipe-data bug".
> 
> Yes, this is it.  Reading the above reference, the 2 processes refered
> to on the Cygwin end are ssh and rsync, connected via a local pipe.
> 
> On a Linux/UNIX system the local rsync process would have inherited
> the socket connected to the rsync process on the target and thus the
> two rsync processes would be directly connected over the socket.

Err... that's not right.  When rsync connects over ssh, and then ssh (or
sshd) disappears, who is going to care for the encryption?  You're not
actually supposing the underlying OS socket knows anything about the
ssh protocol, do you?


Corinna

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