ssh(1) multiplexing rewrite

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Salvador Fandino wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> > I'm hoping to commit the attached version soon. It adds request
> > identifiers so supporting multiple sessions opened by one control
> > connection should be possible without an incompatible protocol
> > change in the future (though the server doesn't support it now).
> >
> > I'd appreciate your thoughts on whether the proposed protocol
> > (documented in PROTOCOL.mux) meets your needs.
>
> I believe that will be enough for multiplexing control messages over a
> single connection.
>
> But regarding the send-signal-over-mux feature, and if you want
> to fix the protocol at this time, a slot should be reserved in
> MUX_C_MSG_NEW_SESSION and MUX_C_NEW_STDIO_FWD packets for the
> friendly-names.

Thanks, I'll add a reserved field that we can use for this later.

-d