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Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN


On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:24:11PM +0100, Robert Wruck wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote
>>Hang on, you are saying that a *blocking* write(2) to a pipe returns
>>with EAGAIN?  Are you sure?  It would be quite a surprise if git would
>>actually do that.  EAGAIN is only an expected error for non-blocking
>>I/O, so applications which use blocking I/O usually only test for
>>EINTR.
>
>
>What I found out:
>
>In fhandler.cc, write_overlapped, there is the call to WriteFile:
>
>	bool res = WriteFile (get_output_handle (), ptr, len, &nbytes,
>			      get_overlapped ());
>
>Surprisingly, this returns FALSE / nbytes = 0 / GetLastError = 
>ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE on WinXP if the number of bytes exceeds some 
>maximum and the handle refers to a pipe.

Knock, knock.  Is this thing on?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00226.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00280.html

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