Connection caching?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May  2 16:34, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Damien Miller wrote:
> >>By the way, it'd be nice not only to be able to open a new
> >>login session, but also to open up a connection to a port
> >>on the remote machine.  (For instance, to a distccd running
> >>remotely.) 
> >
> >You can do that now with port-forwarding, no?
> 
> Yes, but I'm talking about doing it by talking over a unix domain socket
> to the already-running ssh rather than by starting a new ssh.
> My app would ideally connect to the unix domain socket,
> send some command meaning 'please connect me to port 3869 on host xxx',
> and get back an fd connected to that port.

Unfortunately this would exclude Cygwin since file descriptor passing
over unix domain socket is not implemented.  And it's not easy to
implement.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Co-Project Leader
Red Hat, Inc.