Re: [MiNT] rsync doesn't exit

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 28/02/12 08:05, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a small problem with rsync under MiNT. I'm not very
> familiar with this tool, so this could be a user error. I have tried
> to use rsync to back up my Firebee's internal CF-card to a SD-card. It
> appears to work fine, but rsync doesn't exit when it's finished. Both
> processes seems to be stuck in select(), and I have to kill them
> manually. The backup seems to be finished correctly, the number of
> files and folders are identical so are the size. I will compare the
> two directories to confirm that they are indeed identical.
>
> I run rsync with the following parameters: "-a /c /a/backup". /a is a
> FAT32 filesystem, but I have also tried to backup to an ext2
> filesystem with the same result. I have tried with both the old rsync
> in SpareMiNT and 3.0.7 from Alan's Gentoo-project.
>

The from in my Gentoo tree should be fine. It's actually a problem with
the child exiting.

Which version from Gentoo are you using ?

Alan.