Patch for OpenSSH/mmap() on Linux 2.2

Dries Schellekens gwyllion at ace.ulyssis.org
Wed Jun 26 01:10:05 EST 2002


On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Michael Bacarella wrote:

> But on some Linux 2.2 kernels, this is broken. Apparantly, OpenSSH "portable"
> relies on non-POSIX compliant mmap() features.
>
> fixes it on his server. If you use this, it is, like everything else in
> life, at your own risk.
>
> I don't follow the list so I have no idea if this has been reported, fixed,
> or otherwise dealt with.  If you're going to respond to yell at me, do it off list.

This has been reported numerous times.
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285

Set "Compression" to "no" to hqve privsep.


Dries
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