sshd gets stuck: select() in packet_read_seqnr waits indefinitely

[Darren Tucker]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:59:04PM -0600, Matt Day wrote:
> What about the timeout handling in packet_write_wait? Do you really
> want to proceed with the write() and then possibly loop back around
> to the select() call?

Yeah, that's a problem.  On platforms that return EAGAIN rather than
EWOULDBLOCK it'll just spin through packet_write_poll() repeatedly.

Probably best to capture the return from select() explicitly test for
a timeout.

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