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Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so


On Jun 29 11:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 28 15:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > Btw, Corinna, were you proposing turning the "FIXME" code in peek_pipe
> > back on?
> 
> I'm a bit wary to do that, but...
> 
> >   I don't think I ever saw it fail myself after my last round
> > of tweaks but I don't remember what the exact problem was.  Did it
> > fail on some version of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/2008/7?
> 
> ...I just searched for the old threads and here's where the problem
> starts:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00416.html
> 
> That led to:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q3/msg00091.html
> 
> And then there was the Unison problem:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01131.html
> 
> Which was subsequently discussed here:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q3/msg00133.html
> 
> I tested sftp with big files (Gigs) and it appears to work fine with the
> FIXME code switched back to life.  I tested the unison command using
> Cygwin's unison 2.31.4-2 under tcsh and it worked fine.  I tested
> various combinations with pipes created by a native application and with
> native applications on send and receive side of a Cygwin pipe and all my
> testcases worked as expected.
> 
> So, maybe we should really give it a try again.  

Btw., I also tried the rsync of 9000 files with the FIXME code active
and it worked a couple of times in a row without fail.


Corinna

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