rsync over ssh hang issue understood

[Lapo Luchini]

Corinna Vinschen writes:

 > On Dec 30 17:23, Brett Serkez wrote:
 > > I have rsync working over ssh on Cygwin.
 >
 > Me too.  I'm using the standard version of rsync, so I guess the
 > socketpair call is still in use.

I never managed to reproduce that problem, neither, on any of my hosts.
(and I always use rsync over ssh, almost never as a daemon)

Brett Serkez writes:
> While use of socketpair() may be a better method, use of pipe() does
> work and I'd request that the rsync package maintainer please rebuild
> the package with this build option change and reissue the package so all
> can benefit.
I may well produce such a package, but I wonder if it would work on all 
people or not.
Maybe it could be marked as a "test" package so that people could 
install it only explicitly clicking on version number, in setup.

  Lapo


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