OpenSSH-2.5.1p1 scp hangs when scping into an RH (6.0|7.0) box

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim Breton wrote:

> OK I am running into another problem now as well (see the earlier posts
> to this thread so see some of the systems involved).
>
> In addition to the aforementioned issues, I also cannot do this:
>
> ssh hostname "cat > filename" < filename
>
> which is what I had been using as a work-around to the broken scp in
> OpenSSH-2.3.0.  This now also seems broken in 2.5.1 in some cases.

Might this be related to this (from TODO):

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- Linux hangs for 20 seconds when you do "sleep 20&exit".  All current
  solutions break scp or leaves processes hanging around after the ssh
  connection has ended.  It seems to be linked to two things.  One
  select() under Linux is not as nice as others, and two the children
  of the shell are not killed on exiting the shell.
---

If so, scp should work now.

This was changed after 2.3.0p1 was released.

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