> use configure with --pid-debug-files if you want and
> look at sendbackup.debug and runtar.debug (or something like these).
Hmmm... I have debug files in /tmp/amanda/. This creates more of them?
> Did you apply my gnu tar patch?
No. Which patch was that? Too many things on the go, I'm afraid.
> YES! I got it!
> The problem is inside windows socket implementation.
> Nothing to be done:
Ahh... The dreaded "closing a socket doesn't delay until all data has been
sent and ACK'd problem"? Is that it? I'm familiar with that because it
was a problem within the TCP/IP stack I wrote for our own products. :-)
> You have to apply my patch to server's dumper.c also.
> I forgot to add this step in the documentation. Sorry.
Eeek! Any other alternatives? I'd prefer to avoid changing the source
code on the servers.
> Look at my earlier post:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00524.html (that solution was
> not right!)
Why did a pause at the end of the process not work? Or did it just not
work reliably?
> Here you have the dumper.c patch extracted from amanda-2.4.2p2.patch.
>
> A cup of coffe to me, please :)
Sure thing. I've sent it FedEx to you. I didn't have any lids, though...
I hope that's okay.
> Are you going to publish your own porting steps or would you like modify
> my own?
I'll see what I can write up. (once everything actually works, of course)
> Brian White wrote:
> >
> > Well, after several weeks of on-again, off-again work on this, I've got
> > Amanda behaving pretty well under CygWin. I've applied Enrico's patches
> > for v2.4.2 to v2.4.3 and it seems to run just fine.
> >
> > However, when the run completes, the CygWin amanda client completes, it
> > resets the TCP connection instead of closing it properly and thus the
> > server fails with the error "data read: Connection reset by peer".
Brian
( bcwhite AT precidia DOT com )
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