Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone 0.30 hangs when performing sync on certain databases

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:57 -0400, Michael Milner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:16 +0200, Markus Meyer wrote:
> >> Sure, I just did that: the problem also happens when both databases are
> >> in the same directory on the local harddisc on Windows 2000. The same
> >> two databases sync fine when they are both on the same directory on my
> >> Linux machine.
> >
> > For quite a while our unit test for that functionality (specifically,
> > the "talk to another process" part) on Windows was failing. Your failure
> > seems to match fairly well with trying to use that, maybe it's not as
> > fixed as it looks like? (last I heard, it wasn't entirely clear if
> > anyone even knew if there was a "right way" to make it work...)
> >
> 
> I reported a little while ago one bug on windows occurs when spawning the
> server process for a "file:" sync.  If the branch pattern is "*", the
> asterisk is escaped for the original mtn process, but it gets expanded by
> the windows shell when spawning the child server process.
> 
> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2006-09/msg00315.html

Yeah, but I'm fairly certain that'd have different symptoms that what
happened here.

Tim
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