Re: borgbackup test fail on cygwin (only) - cygwin pipe issues?

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On 1/10/2017 10:47 PM, Thomas Waldmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> borgbackup uses a RPC protocol via a ssh pipe to implement client/server
> communication.
> 
> borg client --pipe-- ssh --tcp-- sshd --pipe-- borg serve
> 
> This works very reliable, we have tests running on linux, freebsd,
> netbsd, openbsd, OS X. It even works on win10 linux subsystem.
> 
> But on Cygwin, only the local tests work, but the remote tests (which
> need the pictured ssh pipe) fail or hang.
> 
> When trying to find out what's going wrong, I noticed corrupted data
> coming over the pipe.
> 
> I've found some other pipe issues on the cygwin mailing list, maybe this
> is related?
> 
> Our issue about this:
> 
> https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/1268
> 

Are your pipe handles in open in binary mode or text mode?  You should
always ensure they are in binary mode.

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