Call for testing: OpenSSH 10.4

[Chris Rapier]

On 7/6/26 21:34, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2026, Chris Rapier wrote:
> 
>> No issues on any of my test systems. I do want to say that the new tooling for
>> parsing options in servconf is really nice. Took a moment to figure out what
>> was going on but that's clever stuff there. I'm assuming that will be applied
>> to readconf in the next release or two?
> 
> Not sure at this stage. I did servconf.c mostly because the new macro hell
> makes it easier to keep the serialisation/deserialisation functions in sync
> with changes to options, etc.
> 
> readconf.c has no need for serialisation support, as we haven't (so far)
> privilege-separated the client. There is some desire to do this, so we
> can sandbox the network code on the client side, but it is a *lot* of
> work.

What I appreciate not having to update multiple sections when I add a 
new config option. The macro hell is confusing at first but it made a 
lot of sense once I figured it out. So if you do want to apply it to 
readconf I'm all for it. That said, I know I'm an outlier in that I do 
touch that code pretty frequently.

Chris