[Monotone-devel] Re: Freeze on Windows using ssh transport

[Lapo Luchini]

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Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> A third possibility is that there are issues with the
> talk-to-child-process code on windows, which is utterly nasty.  It
> took ages and ages to get that code working at all, it's still
> very difficult to understand, and there are still intermittent
> failures in the test suite that no-one has managed to reliably
> reproduce, where it just blocks forever waiting on the child
> process... (our best guess so far is that it might have something to
> do with windows having a broken buffering model for named pipes).

There is a identical (as far as this description goes) bug with
rsync-over-ssh on Cygwin, that most people blame on Cygwin's spawning
code: that's why I was asking which SSH was in use exactly, it would be
partly a relief to know that it is Windows's fault, and not Cygwin's ;-)

    Lapo
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