scp no longer reports incremental progress

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 1 14:43:00 GMT 2010


On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:00:42PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote on 2010-03-31:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:14:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>> On 3/29/2010 6:09 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>>>> I am running the latest Cygwin (1.7.2) and ssh.
>>>>>
>>>>> I notice that scp (from local to remote host) no longer shows an
>>>>> incremental progress bar.  It just reports 100% completion
>>>>> immediately, then I have to wait until the copy is actually done.
>>>>
>>>>> Sink: C0644 11015296 dx4wawd.zip
>>>>> dx4wawd.zip
>>>>>                100%   11MB  10.5MB/s   00:00
>>>>
>>>> Hmm...same behavior here.  Didn't we see this behavior before, about a
>>>> year ago?  I think what fixed it back then was some cgf magic in the
>>>> socket fhandler innards.
>>>>
>>>> Uh-oh. One of the changes between 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 was more socket work.
>>>
>>> Actually, I think it was pipe related.
>>
>> And, it was.  I removed what I thought was an stupid function.  As it
>> turns out the function was needed but it just wasn't working quite
>> right.
>>
>> Today's snapshot, uploaded a few minutes ago, should fix the problem.
>
>Euh, 20100331 seems to introduce regressions for me compared to 20100328.
>scp now seems broken for me,
>
>$ scp -vvvvv somefile user@example.org:/tmp/
>Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host example.org, user user, command scp  
>-v -t -- /tmp/
>
>and often just hangs there, while PuTTY's pscp and interactive ssh to the  
>same host + login works just fine, and also if I'm using the 20100328  
>snapshot.
>
>With gdb attached, it succeeds once in a while.

How big is "somefile" and where is "example.org"?  Is it a local
machine?  In another country/state/continent?  What kind of system is
it?

cgf

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