BUG: ssh hangs on full stdout-file-system

[Olaf Rogalsky]

System: Linux 2.4.18, openssh-3.4p1

Problem: 
  I use "ssh" and "tar" to backup remote directory trees to a local
  hard-disk/file-system:
  # ssh remote.server.org "tar -cz /home" >/backup/remote.tar.gz

  If the backup-file-system runs out of space before the backup
  completes, ssh starts hanging (waiting for the stdout-write to 
  complete).

Analysis:
  In this example it is of course very unlikely, that some space on the
  backup-file-system will be freed so that the backup can finish. 
  Instead I would expect ssh to abort with an error, perhaps after some
  grace time.
  On the other hand there *may* be other situations, where one expects ssh
  to hang as it does. But since I am not aware of such an other situation,
  I consider this as a bug.

Comments: ?

Olaf Rogalsky

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