sftp client

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:04:19PM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> 
> > 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?

I can't make the decision but it would be nice to include this before
2.5.1p2 since it makes sftp on Cygwin more robust.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
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