sftp client

mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Sat Feb 24 13:04:19 EST 2001


> I have now further investigated the problem and found a solution to
> avoid the sftp-server hanging around.
> 
> The OpenSSH sftp closes the sockets/pipes (dependent of the value of
> USE_PIPES) and then kills it's underlying ssh by calling kill(ssh, SIGHUP).
> 
> This `kill' kills the underlying ssh immediately instead of giving
> time to cleanup. This results in breaking the connection to the sshd
> which in turn misses to cleanup it's connection to the subsystem.
> 
[..]

What was the final decision in on this patch?  Is there going to be a
different fix in the OpenSSH tree or should I apply this before 2.5.1p2?

- Ben






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