[PATCH]: Drop Cygwin workaround

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Sat Sep 8 01:12:16 EST 2001


On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the Cygwin specific workaround to sleep a second in daemon() isn't
> needed anymore. We can eliminate it from the OpenSSH sources.

Is it not needed because of changes to the OpenSSH code or
changes to Cygwin?

>
> Index: daemon.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/openssh_cvs/openbsd-compat/daemon.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -p -r1.1 daemon.c
> --- daemon.c	2001/01/31 21:52:03	1.1
> +++ daemon.c	2001/08/30 08:41:39
> @@ -51,13 +51,6 @@ daemon(nochdir, noclose)
>  	case 0:
>  		break;
>  	default:
> -#ifdef HAVE_CYGWIN
> -		/*
> -		 * This sleep avoids a race condition which kills the
> -		 * child process if parent is started by a NT/W2K service.
> -		 */
> -		sleep(1);
> -#endif
>  		_exit(0);
>  	}
>
>
> Corinna
>
>

-- 
Tim Rice				Multitalents	(707) 887-1469
tim at multitalents.net





More information about the openssh-unix-dev mailing list