Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Lists wrote:
>> Lists wrote:
>>> Larry Hall wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>> Can you upgrade to the latest Cygwin 1.7 package and try again.  
>>>> From your
>>>> cygcheck output, it looks like things are not correct but this may 
>>>> be just
>>>> a problem with an old cygcheck that doesn't know how to find the 
>>>> implicit
>>>> mounts.  If the issue is still the same, resending the output of the 
>>>> new
>>>> cygcheck would be helpful.
>>>
>>> I just downloaded the newest version of cygwin 1.7 as of 6-19-09 at 
>>> approximately 3:30 CST and had the exact same results.  Please find 
>>> the new cygcheck.out file attached.  You mentioned above that their 
>>> might be a problem with the mounts.  Not sure if it helps to know 
>>> this, but I can successfully use rsync to copy many gigabytes of 
>>> files.  It just hangs when there are thousands of files in a single 
>>> directory (9,000 seems to always do it.).  Also note that this 
>>> cygcheck was done on a different computer than the first just to make 
>>> sure this isn't computer specific. Again, I have tried it on several.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Your cygcheck output looks more like what I would expect except that it
>> is truncated.  Does this happen when you run it or did it just get 
>> stopped
>> early?
>>
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>> Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
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>>
> 
> It didn't get stoped early, that is just what it looks like on this 
> machine. I ran it again to verify and got what appears to be the same 
> thing, at least it seems to stop in the same place.  This particular 
> machine runs Windows Vista so perhaps that has something to do with it?  
> Either way, the rsync results were the same.  Attached you should find 
> another copy created on yet another machine.  Rsync results remain the 
> same.  This machine runs XP.

OK, this makes me very suspicious that something is getting in your way.
'cygcheck -srv' should contain allot more information than that.  And while
I might suspect Vista (though was always able to get valid output on the
Vista installation I used to have), I would never expect a problem getting
the complete output on XP unless something was interfering.  Perhaps you're
experiencing the effects of <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>?
Ironically, if this is the problem, the cygcheck output is designed to
help spot this kind of problem...


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