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Re: Rsync over SSH dies before it is able to send with lots of files
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:02:05PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> Aha - I found something. When I first ran the touch command above, I
>> stopped at about 8000 files (or about 400k for the subsequent echo command
>> line), which gave the nice "Argument list too long" error. But when I
>> increased the number of files to 45000 (or about 2 meg of command line),
>> the same command failed with a segfault with bash 3.0, and gave no input
>> but left $? at 5 (matching EIO) on the alpha bash 3.1. I will have to try
>> debugging it now, but it seems odd that exec() is dying with E2BIG in one
>> case and EIO when the input is even bigger.
>
>I wonder if you're seeing the same bug as reported here:
><http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=111732750706203&w=2>.
Coincidentally enough, this is fixed in the latest snapshot, AFAICT.
>(How kind of him to post on FD and not even CC cygwin@)
Yes, isn't it, though?
cgf
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