sftp / latest snapshot

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have just played around a little bit with the actual CVS on HP-UX 10.20.
> - In openbsd-compat/Makefile.in the .c.o default rule is missing:
>   .c.o:
> 	  $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $<

Some how this does not suprise me.. I've been dragging that change forward
for almost two months now.  It should be in now.

> - Linking sftp fails, because seed_rng() cannot be resolved. Actually it
>   is in entropy.c (libssh) and needed by arc4random.c. A similar problem
>   has been discussed several days ago and the problem should be solved by
>   removing arc4random calls from sftp-client.c. In the ChangeLog there is:
>   20010208
>   - (djm) Fix linking of sftp, don't need arc4random any more.
>   But sftp-client is dated Feb 5 and still contains the calls. Maybe the
>   check-in was forgotten!?

I have to assume that sftp-client.c was not synced.  I saw this but did
not think much about it at the time. (Because I've been too busy dealing
with a video editing project to compile the latest version)

> - I am not sure whether piddir (explicitly specified) should be set to
>   sysconfdir just like that without a comment if piddir does not exist.
>   Wouldn't it be better to create piddr during "make install"?
>   -> configure.in
> - At the end of configure.in
>   echo "                 User binaries: $B"
>   is contained twice.
> 
Fixed.  Thanks.

> Having this said, I could connect and transfer some files using sftp
> and sftp-server. However: opening the connections was abysmally slow
> (20 seconds), I don't know yet the reason. I can reproduce it by a simple
> slogin and comparing with other hosts using 2.3.0p1 it seems to be caused
> by the server side.
> 

- Ben