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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:14:59 -0500
From:      Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
To:        Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh2: piperd = hanging?
Message-ID:  <387AD873.1814A5F9@cvzoom.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001110700580.61419-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl>

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Marc Schneiders wrote:
> 
> Trying to use cvs to get a working copy of /usr/src from the
> /home/ncvs of one machine to another, cvs just hangs. Top displays as
> state for cvs `piperd'. I have not been able to find this documented
> in the top man page. A guess: pipe reading data?  In my case it
> indicates cvs or ssh hanging :-( There are no data read anymore in any
> case (for which top seems to print `getblk' or `RUN' during the short
> time cvs works). Things remain like this until I kill cvs through ^C.

`piperd' means a process is reading from a pipe.  In your case, maybe
reading from a pipe is causing a hang.  Of course, the inverse of
piperd is pipewt, I believe, which means the process is writing to a
pipe.

- Donn


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