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Re: rtorrent and recent snapshots - apparent problem with msync()


Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> I saw that you made another change to this function.  Is it possible that
>> this might actually fix the "rtorrent problem"?

> No.  It only adds the MS_SYNC handling.  rtorrent uses MS_ASYNC.

That made me think... If rtorrent uses MS_ASYNC, shouldn't *rtorrent* be
prepared for consequences? Instead of you trying to satisfy its
expectations?

> I think there's basically no way around the loop.  I'm just still
> wondering if we shouldn't add a cygwait() call to handle signals
> during the wait time.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 19.01.2013, <00:15>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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