[Bug 369] Inconsistant exiit status from scp

[Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com]

The only hang-on-exit problem left, that I know of, is the Solaris-
/bin/csh-doesn't-HUP-its-bg-procs-when-exiting problem, and that is
relevant only to pty sessions. SCP does not use pty sessions,
therefore this hang-on-exit problem won't bite an scp that wait()s
for its ssh child process.

Cheers,

Nico
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Binder [mailto:binder at arago.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 1:37 PM
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: [Bug 369] Inconsistant exiit status from scp
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > ------- Additional Comments From markus at openbsd.org  
> 2002-09-10 22:45 -------
> > do you have a patch for checking the exit status of ssh? 
> 
> I attached a rough patch for that. It probably (I haven't been
> able to check) has one drawback, though: If the remote sshd has
> the "scp hangs on exit" problem, then the patched local scp will
> now do so, too.
> 
> Besides, the patch also adds a check for fork() returning an
> error.
> 
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Thomas
> 

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