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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 19 15:55, Lists 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.

Works fine for me under the latest Cygwin 1.7.0-50 using your perl
script and your rsync options.  I tend to agree to Larry's assumption
that some 3PP is interferring.


Corinna

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