Force TTY

[Darren Tucker]

olle ollesson wrote:
> I'm having problems with getting a tty against an extreme switch. I've tried 
> with the -t flag that is supposed to force a tty but it's not working.
> 
> I checked the code in ssh.c where this option is parsed:
> 
> case 't':
>   if (tty_flag)
>     force_tty_flag = 1;
>   tty_flag = 1;
>   break;
> 
> The tty_flag is initialized to 0 and what I can see this flag is always 0 at 
> this stage in the code. Thus it is impossible to set the force_tty_flag to 
> 1.

Hint: the case is inside a loop, so that might run more than once.

> Is this done intentionally or is it a bug? Why the if statement?

"ssh -t -t" forces pty allocation.

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