Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr  1 14:00, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote on 2010-03-31:
> 
> >On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:14:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >>>On 3/29/2010 6:09 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> >>>>I am running the latest Cygwin (1.7.2) and ssh.
> >>>>
> >>>>I notice that scp (from local to remote host) no longer shows an
> >>>>incremental progress bar.  It just reports 100% completion
> >>>>immediately, then I have to wait until the copy is actually done.
> >>>
> >>>>Sink: C0644 11015296 dx4wawd.zip
> >>>>dx4wawd.zip
> >>>>               100%   11MB  10.5MB/s   00:00
> >>>
> >>>Hmm...same behavior here.  Didn't we see this behavior before, about a
> >>>year ago?  I think what fixed it back then was some cgf magic in the
> >>>socket fhandler innards.
> >>>
> >>>Uh-oh. One of the changes between 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 was more socket work.
> >>
> >>Actually, I think it was pipe related.
> >
> >And, it was.  I removed what I thought was an stupid function.  As it
> >turns out the function was needed but it just wasn't working quite
> >right.
> >
> >Today's snapshot, uploaded a few minutes ago, should fix the problem.
> 
> Euh, 20100331 seems to introduce regressions for me compared to 20100328.
> scp now seems broken for me,
> 
> $ scp -vvvvv somefile user@example.org:/tmp/
> Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host example.org, user user, command
> scp -v -t -- /tmp/
> 
> and often just hangs there, while PuTTY's pscp and interactive ssh
> to the same host + login works just fine, and also if I'm using the
> 20100328 snapshot.

Strange, I'm trying that, too, and it works every time for me.
Is your remote box a Cygwin box or some foreign OS?


Corinna

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