[patch] Threading support in ssh-agent

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Mar 21 10:19:56 EST 2012


On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, alex at alemate.ru wrote:

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

No, sorry - we have no desire to make any part of OpenSSH multithreaded,
especially something as sensitive as ssh-agent.

We might consider an alternate design that used fork() if it were simple
enough, but I'd encourage you to hold off as I plan on refactoring some
of the agent code in the next release.

-d


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