openssh continues to process dash arguements after hostname

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Apr 28 12:28:25 EST 2004


Mark Andrews wrote:

> 	So because you fail to fix a bug other bugs fail to get
> 	fixed.  You then get to the stage where when you report bad
> 	command line generation, because you happen to also use a
> 	implemtation that enforces the ssh command line, it gets
> 	knocked back with "it works with my ssh".
> 
> 	Yes that happened when I reported a bug in CVS to FreeBSD.
> 	I also reported it to the CVS maintainers who accepted the
> 	bug report so it will eventually make it into FreeBSD.

If FreeBSD had done the right thing and had the discussion with us,
then there wouldn't be divergence. Unfortunately they, like most
distributors, have a lousy record of feeding local changes upstream.

-d




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