Cray patch against openssh-SNAP-20010802

Wendy Palm wendyp at cray.com
Tue Aug 7 10:34:33 EST 2001


mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> 
> > The details on all the patches:
> >
> >  configure.in  - Add work around to sco libyp assumution.
> Does Wendy's patch work?  I'd rather use her's.

it does on all my systems.  i haven't heard from bill about it, but
i sent the fix after he'd sent the patch into you.

> >  entropy.c     - Define INADDR_LOOPBACK
> 
> Can we put this in defines.h instead?

seems to work there just fine.  no problem.

> >  deattack.c    - Modified to not depend on u_int16_t
> >                      being 16bit in size.
> I still want Markus or someone in the OpenBSD group to bless this or
> come up with a high-breed idea for the OpenBSD tree.

eager to hear one.  it's a real problem on a 64-bit machine.

> >  serverloop.c - Modified sigchld_handler to not reset
> >                      on Crays.  This is the
> >                      only case its needs to be reset, the side effect
> >                   is it fixes the problem with a infinite signal loop
> >                         under unicos and unicosmk.
> >                      Modified waitpid to keep trying if it gets an EINTR,
> >                      this can happen due to job termination signal on unicos and
> >                      unicosmk.
> 
> Still not included.  Waiting for feed back from others..

ok, eager to hear about this too.

> 
> >  session.c     - Added unicos/unicosmk job termination signal handler.
> >                      Add TMPDIR environment variable.
> >                         Add code to set up a unicos/unicosmk job and system
> >                      limits.
> 
> Applied most.

cool.  problems?  or just taking it slow? (i know there's a lot in there)

> >  bsd-cray.c       - Clean up cray support routines.  Fix su related
> >                         security bug.
> >  bsd-cray.h       - Cray support subroutine proto types.
> 
> Applied.
> 
> I added bsd-cray.h to openbsd-compat.h  where it should be.. If does not
> work out there then we should try defines.h before putting it into a
> single file.

it seems to work.  i haven't had it fail yet.

thanks,
wendy

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wendy palm
Cray OS Sustaining Engineering, Cray Inc.
wendyp at cray.com, 651-605-9154



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