rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:41:54AM -0700, Bakken, Luke wrote:
> It never got past cygwin_select().
> [...]
> > The bottom point: *don't do that* ;-)
> >  i.e. leave the msleep() call there.
> 
> If I leave msleep there, it hangs every time. So I'm taking it out. Now,

But Hannu is right.  Why not replace msleep(2) by usleep(20000)?  AFAICS,
it should fix the hang as well.  Would you mind to try it?

>  I'm now going to see if
> I can isolate the heart of the problem with a simple program that forks
> and sleeps in the same fashion as with rsync.

No worries, I have a working testcase which shows the hang.  But thanks
for the offer.

Corinna

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