Why the limitation on Windows environnment introduced in OpenSSH 4.0?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Nov 12 05:44:24 EST 2010


kevin gurney wrote:
> Digging through source, I see that this change was introduced in v4.0
> (the "fetch_windows_environment()" function in 
> openbsd-compat/bsd-cygwin_util.c).
>
> Can anyone shed light on why this was thought to be a "bug" needing
> fixing?

What does the commit message for the change say? Look up which
revision of that file introduced the change.


//Peter


More information about the openssh-unix-dev mailing list