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

Thu Jan 12 16:53:00 GMT 2017

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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