[Bug 369] Inconsistant exiit status from scp

[Thomas Binder]

Hi!

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 02:26:38PM -0400, Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com wrote:
> 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.

No, scp can also hang on some systems where OpenSSH should have
been compiled with USE_PIPES, but hasn't:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=openssh+use_pipes+socketpair&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=slrn8tmd09.1e9.jaenicke%40emserv1.ee.TU-Berlin.DE&rnum=2

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I agree this is not a very common problem, because most systems
known to have this problem should be handled correctly by
configure by now, but I wanted to point this out.


Ciao

Thomas