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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I'm attempting to port OpenSSH
to IBM's S/390 mainframe. Things have gone well but I have come a little unstuck
with the internal PRNG. Although the commands in ssh_prng_cmds are being
executed the select() seems to be returning 0 and therefore the cose is assuming
that the forked process has timed out. This could be a difference in the way
that select is implemented on OS/390. The Unix environment provided by OS/390
has many compatability levels from including several POSIX and XPG variants. I
am not a C expert and the debugegr is not very good, has anyone come across
smiliar behavior before. A description of the select() on OS/390 can be found
at: <A
href="http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/EDCLB031/4%2e1%2e131?SHELF=CBCBS031">http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/EDCLB031/4%2e1%2e131?SHELF=CBCBS031</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, Paul Anderson</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>