ssh host echo bla | echo bla

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:37:33PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:28:47AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > So what's the fix?
> 
> this is why i mail to the list. this list is for people who
> send patches :)
> 
> even
> 	$ ssh -n -2 host od /bsd | true
> waits very long.

I don't know if there is a fix. You never know when stdout or stderr
might become broken pipes. You just don't know because the only way to
find out is to poll them or write to them. But if you poll them you lose
because the poll will almost always return right away (they'll almost
always be writable or have an error). And you can't be writing to them
when you have nothing to write.

So the question is what should ssh do *when* ssh discovers that stdout
or stderr are broken pipes.


Nico
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