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

[William Uther]

On 23/02/2007, at 9:06 PM, Lapo Luchini wrote:

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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).
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> 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 ;-)

The users in question don't know where they got the ssh, but they  
have Cygwin installed, so I assume it is that version.  It doesn't  
matter if they run mtn from a cygwin shell or a cmd.exe shell, both  
seem to freeze.  The Monotone binary is the one from the web site.

Be well,

Will         :-}