ssh client does not timeout if the network fails after ssh_connect but before ssh_exchange_identification, even with Alive options set

[Jiaying Zhang]

On 7/26/07, Dan Yefimov <dan at ns15.lightwave.net.ru> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Jiaying Zhang wrote:
>
> > I was thinking to record the start time and subtract the elapsed time
> > when an interrupt happens.
> >
> How were you going to determine the elapsed time? Only Linux, AFAIK,
> returns
> the remaining timeout (correct me if I'm wrong).


I was thinking to record the start time with gettimeofday and check the
current time with it when we set the select timer.  If server_alive_interval
* server_alive_count_max - (current_time - start_time) is shorter than
server_alive_interval, we set timer to that value instead. But since we do
not expect the timeout to be very accurate, we can save that trouble.

Jiaying

> But still, when options.server_alive_count_max=1, we should exit after the
> > first timeout.
> >
> Yes, we should since, as you pointed out, options.server_alive_count_max=1:-)
> --
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>     Sincerely Your, Dan.
>
>