[patch] Threading support in ssh-agent

alex at alemate.ru alex at alemate.ru
Tue Mar 20 20:10:42 EST 2012


 		Hi all,

 	Is there any hope for threaded ssh-agent to be included in the
main trunk?


On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, Alexander V Alekseev wrote:

> 		Hi all!
>
> 	I do not know openssh patch policy so I am just sending
> the patch to the mailing list. Sorry for inconvenience.
> 	Ssh-agent seems to be too slow if you need to access thousands of
> servers. This is a simple patch to enable threading in ssh2 authentication.
> Patch adds "-p numthreads" option and defaults to the number of processors.
>
> 	I've tested it as I could, but unfortunately I could check it
> only in Linux environment. Though it shouldn't break anything.
>
> 		Bye. Alex.


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