X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 02:11:39 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: git on cygwin 1.7.2/1.7.4 Message-ID: <20100408061139.GA27780@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4BB29285 DOT 4010701 AT gmail DOT com> <20100331042545 DOT GA23824 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4BB3F897 DOT 7090306 AT gmail DOT com> <4BBD42BC DOT 4050404 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BBD42BC.4050404@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:43:08PM -0400, Mark Levedahl wrote: >On 03/31/2010 09:36 PM, Mark Levedahl wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:08:37PM -0400, Mark Levedahl wrote: >>>> All of the above connections and i/o processing are done using >>>> bog-standard fork, pipe, open, read, write, and associated file >>>> commands. Git has no trouble opening all of the processes and pipes >>>> under Cygwin 1.7.2. However, in general before the data transfer is >>>> complete the demux process issues an error upon getting an incomplete >>>> packet (fewer bytes transmitted than declared in the header), and >>>> debugging shows the error code of the read() is ENOENT, indicating the >>>> pipe or socket has been terminated early. The index-pack process also >>>> issues an error due to receipt of an incomplete pack. >Given the above, it seems logical the problem is with pipes, and as >1.7.4-1 is has fixes for pipes I tried it out and found a significant >improvement: using 1.7.2-1 I got 16 failures out of 20 attempts to clone >a 17 MByte repo on localhost, using 1.7.4-1 this is down to 3 failures >out of 20 attempts. (1.7.3-1 was not an improvement). And, yet, there were no fixes for pipes in 1.7.4. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple