Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

Scott, Thanks for the suggestion. Switching from socketpair() to pipe() does let ssh get going, but rsync later runs into problems. A few minutes into the transfer it just hangs. I've actually been able to run fine once past the initial hang, but I've seen reports of random

rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

I've found an rsync problem that might be another data point for the fork() (or exec()?) problems mentioned on the cygwin mailing list last fall. On one of my systems rsync hangs after it forks a cygwin program. Surprisingly, when it forks some native windows program, it completes. I started this

Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

Brett, Thanks for the suggestion. Switching from socketpair() to pipe() does let ssh get going, but rsync later runs into problems. A few minutes into the transfer it just hangs. Since I exercised ssh by transferring 16MB files back and forth for