Updated Cray patch against openssh SNAP-20010725

William L. Jones jones at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Jul 27 04:08:40 EST 2001


Hmm,

Your right that is what it should do!  
For some reason it may not be working on Crays.  
Let me do some more investgation.  

Bill Jones

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Steves [mailto:stevesk at pobox.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 1:00 PM
> To: William L. Jones
> Cc: mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org; William L. Jones;
> openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org; jones at tacc.utexas.edu
> Subject: RE: Updated Cray patch against openssh SNAP-20010725
> 
> 
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, William L. Jones wrote:
> :I made the change based on the following logic:
> :
> :  1) If you have HAVE_SIGACTION then the signal is handler is 
> not reset and
> :     thier is no need to reset it in the signal handler.
> :  2) If you don't have HAVE_SIGACTION then the signal handler 
> may or may not
> :     be reset.  So I do the save thing a reset it.
> :
> :Since SIGACTION is a POSIX standered I can depened on 1.
> :
> :Case 2 insure that this code will work the same as it always does if
> :you don't have SIGACTION.
> 
> if you have sigaction(), mysignal() will not reset the handler if it has
> not changed, so no changes are required with the switch to mysignal.  i
> just commited a change so we use mysignal() entirely for proto 1 and 2
> server loops.
> 
> look in misc.c for mysignal.
> 



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