Call for testing: openssh-9.8

[Damien Miller]

you're quite right, not sure why we never caught this before!

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi Damien,
> 
> On Jun 18 12:46, Damien Miller wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > OpenSSH 9.8p1 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing
> > on as many platforms and systems as possible. This is a bugfix release.
> 
> Builds on current Cygwin and all tests pass, except a single command
> in a single test:
> 
>   run test sftp-cmds.sh ...
>   sftp commands: lls
>   lls failed
> 
> Every other test in sftp-cmds.sh works, just this one lls test
> constantly fails for me.
> 
> I found that the current working directory when starting sftp -D is the
> regress source dir, in my case:
> 
>   /home/corinna/openssh-9.8p0-1.x86_64/src/openssh-portable/regress
> 
> When calling sftp in the lls test, it's asked to change the working
> dir to the build regress dir, i.e.:
> 
>   printf "cd ${OBJ}\nlls\n" | ${SFTP} -D ${SFTPSERVER} 2>&1 | 
>          grep copy.dd >/dev/null || fail "lls failed"
> 
> That's correct, because the copy.dd file is created in ${OBJ}.
> 
> In my case of building outside the source dir, $OBJ is
> 
>   /home/corinna/openssh-9.8p0-1.x86_64/build/regress
> 
> However, `cd' only changes the remote dir.  This doesn't affect
> the subsequent `lls' command which still has its local working dir
> set to the source dir.
> 
> Consequentially, lls fails.
> 
> Shouldn't `cd' actually be `lcd' in this test to be independent
> of building inside or outside the source dir?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 
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