Multiple (multiplexed) simultaneous ssh connections - Cygwin bug?

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Wed Sep 13 00:49:35 EST 2006


On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:38:36AM -0400, Goldburt, Dan wrote:
> Not necessarily. The only modification was to increase MAX_SESSIONS per
> connection from 10 to 128. But even without the change, let's say I have
> one multiplexed connection that is hosting 10 sessions. I can also
> simultaneously open 15 regular ssh connections to have 25 sessions
> opening up, and there is a good chance I will overrun the fd_set.

No, the file descriptor table (and thus fd_set) is per-process and each
SSH connection has its own sshd process handling it.

(It's a bit late here to go into the rest of your mail, sorry.)

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