OpenSSH server stops returning data from a server module

[Markus Friedl]

do you have example code to reproduce this problem?

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:26:15PM +0200, Norbert Sendetzky wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've written a client/server application using OpenSSH for securing 
> the transactions. The server is written as OpenSSH server module 
> (same as sftp) while the client is a seperate application invoking 
> the ssh client. My application and the ssh client are connected by 
> socketpairs the same way as the OpenSSH server and the server module 
> are.
> 
> After the connection between the ssh client and the server is 
> established, the user is authenticated and the server module is 
> loaded, the application starts sending messages to the server module. 
> The server module then responds to the former request. After around 
> 1K of data returned by the server module, the OpenSSH server stops 
> forwarding the data returned by the server module, so the failure is 
> deterministic.
> 
> I've done several tests to exclude a mistake made by myself. The 
> server module and the client application seperately work correctly on 
> the same data. If I connect the client and the server module directly 
> by replacing the execution of the ssh client in the client 
> application with the execution of the server module, then there is no 
> problem at all.
> 
> My tests have shown this behaviour from OpenSSH version 2.9 to 3.1. 
> Is there any known problem related to this observation?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Norbert
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