The problem was this sequence of events:
(1) File transfer goes through OK.
(2) pclose returns failure (because 'tar' subprocess failed)
(3) We try to cancel the transfer by calling cancel_receive.
Step (3) fails because the transfer (as far as the library is
concerned) has succeeded, so causing a hang.
The more fundamental reason why we see steps (1) and (2) is that
'tar' does NOT fail immediately if there is a write error. Instead
it continues reading and discarding the input until the end of the
input before giving "Error exit delayed from previous errors".
IMHO this is a bug with tar, since an ENOSPC write error should
be fatal for tar.
if (pclose (fp) != 0) {
err = errno;
- cancel_receive ();
+ if (r == -1) /* if r == 0, file transfer ended already */
+ cancel_receive ();
errno = err;
reply_with_perror ("pclose: %s", dir);
return -1;
if (pclose (fp) != 0) {
err = errno;
- cancel_receive ();
+ if (r == -1) /* if r == 0, file transfer ended already */
+ cancel_receive ();
errno = err;
reply_with_perror ("pclose: %s", dir);
return -1;
if (close (fd) == -1) {
err = errno;
- cancel_receive ();
+ if (r == -1) /* if r == 0, file transfer ended already */
+ cancel_receive ();
errno = err;
reply_with_perror ("close: %s", filename);
return -1;