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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