sftp client

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:53:34PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> > As of Sunday evening, OpenSSH has an interactive sftp client. It should
> > be in the more recent snapshots.
> > 
> > It would be appreciated if you could test new client and find all the 
> > bugs :) Please also have a read of the manpage and ensure that it 
> > matches what is implemented.
> > 
> > I am working on fixing the ones that I know about, so please try to 
> > stay up to date with the snapshots.
> 
> Just hit another problem. When connecting with openssh-sftp to
> the sftp-server the sftp-server process remains in memory after
> exiting the client, waiting for input.
> 
> sftp-server on i686-pc-cygwin,
> sftp-client on i686-pc-cygwin and i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> The same does not happen when using the ssh.com sftp client.
 
Does the parent sshd exit?

Can you turn on debugging in the sftp-server by editing the #define TRACE 
to use log instead of debug. I would like to see whether ssh.com sftp 
sends an explicit close message.

-d

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