On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:11:22PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 09:25:26PM -0700, Chris Frost wrote: > > I've noticed, for a few years or more, that mbsync will sometimes appear to > > hang. > > > i remember we talked about that before. i suppose you did not make > progress investigating this? > irrespective of particular bugs, mbsync should get some proper timeout > handling, of course.
Ah yes, in September of 2008. Time flies. I did not make further progress in tracking it down, unfortunately. > > I've noticed that mbsync can fail to sync a mailbox, print an error > > that it has failed, but then exit with a status of 0 (success). > > > whoops. > does this happen with current master? with the async branch? > it would be helpful if you could narrow down the conditions. This was far before the current master and before the async branch. (Slightly related, the async work sounds exciting.) I don't remember how frequently I would see this or what message I would see, so I'm not too confident I'll catch it again. But if I think of a reasonable way to catch it, what might be helpful to know? Running with -V and within strace -tt? It appears that you have you disinfected your signature from that signature virus it had in 2008. :) -- Chris Frost http://www.frostnet.net/chris/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
