hang on exit - bug or no bug?

Phil Howard phil-openssh-unix-dev at ipal.net
Thu Oct 4 21:20:39 EST 2001


mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> On 4 Oct 2001, John Bowman wrote:
> 
> > > I haven't been able to find a sane way of avoiding the hang on exit
> > > on Linux or Solaris. OpenBSD doesn't seem to have the problem - there
> >
> > On Linux, a patch to fix this openssh bug, without data loss, has been
> > available for some time now:
> >
> > http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/
> >
> 
> Again we went over this.. It causes data lost on other systems.  We are
> not Linux centric.  If we ever became that I would leave.

If the patch can be done in such a way that it won't compile in
for systems where it won't work, e.g. conditional only to Linux,
then would that be acceptable to roll it in to the p versions?

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