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Re: git on cygwin 1.7.2/1.7.4
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 02:11:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: git on cygwin 1.7.2/1.7.4
- References: <4BB29285.4010701@gmail.com> <20100331042545.GA23824@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4BB3F897.7090306@gmail.com> <4BBD42BC.4050404@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:43:08PM -0400, Mark Levedahl wrote:
>On 03/31/2010 09:36 PM, Mark Levedahl wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:08:37PM -0400, Mark Levedahl wrote:
>>>> All of the above connections and i/o processing are done using
>>>> bog-standard fork, pipe, open, read, write, and associated file
>>>> commands. Git has no trouble opening all of the processes and pipes
>>>> under Cygwin 1.7.2. However, in general before the data transfer is
>>>> complete the demux process issues an error upon getting an incomplete
>>>> packet (fewer bytes transmitted than declared in the header), and
>>>> debugging shows the error code of the read() is ENOENT, indicating the
>>>> pipe or socket has been terminated early. The index-pack process also
>>>> issues an error due to receipt of an incomplete pack.
>Given the above, it seems logical the problem is with pipes, and as
>1.7.4-1 is has fixes for pipes I tried it out and found a significant
>improvement: using 1.7.2-1 I got 16 failures out of 20 attempts to clone
>a 17 MByte repo on localhost, using 1.7.4-1 this is down to 3 failures
>out of 20 attempts. (1.7.3-1 was not an improvement).
And, yet, there were no fixes for pipes in 1.7.4.
cgf
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