ssh host echo bla | echo bla

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 05:26:39PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:56:31PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > The patch should be to nchan.c:chan_write_failed2() - it should check
> > whether the fildes being closed is stdout (or stderr), and if so, print
> > an error / log an error and then call fatal().
> > 
> > Simple enough, yes? Correct? I think so.
> 
> i think the ssh client should close the 'channel' when both the local
> read and write FDs are closed.

I'm not sure I understand. You're saying that SSH should close the [ssh]
channel (ok, yes) but only if stdin *and* stdout are broken/closed? I
would change that "and" to "or" and add stderr. And after closing the
ssh channel the client would exit, yes? Assuming no in-use port/agent/X
forwardings.


> -m


Cheers,

Nico
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