Jurgen describes the behavior of some of my hangs -- as well as the
strace 'solution' to make it finish.
Wayne's patch fixed the hangs for me. Will this patch be incorporated
into the main tree?
eric
Wayne Davison wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jurgen Botz wrote:
> > I'm seeing the following bizarre behavior...
> >
> > - "rsync -av" from one local fs to another local fs (local disk on both)
> > - rsync gets to very near completion then hangs indefinitely
> > - attach strace to rsync process doing the 'copy from' and
> > it starts up again and finishes!
>
> This is the second of two hangs that my recent "nohang" patch fixes.
> The patch is relative to the CVS version, but it applies fine to version
> 2.4.6 as well (with offsets, but no fuzz). I have not looked at 2.4.5,
> though.
>
> You can get the patch from here:
>
> http://www.clari.net/~wayne/rsync-nohang.patch
>
> ..wayne..
