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Subject:	SSHD and win32 console apps - was RE: [ros-kernel] Re: Shell enhancements
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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:05:40 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Susi [mailto:phreak AT iag DOT net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: ros-kernel AT reactos DOT com
> Subject: [ros-kernel] Re: Shell enhancements
> 
> 
> At 10:13 PM 4/23/01, you wrote:
> 
> >This makes much more sense. I suggest you do look at cygwins pty
> >implementation. I know that you are working a level deeper 
> than cygwin
> >does... but it might be instructive (as the cygwin telnet server and
> >sshd server do work :] ).
> >
> >Rob
> Can you run win32 console apps from the cygwin sshd?  If so, 
> I'd sure like 

Like net.exe? I believe a fix for the output of net.exe was committed
recently. I don't have a handy URL though, So I'll cross post this to
cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com and hopefully you'll get an authoritative answer
:]

> to know how.  If not, then yea, I can see cygwin kludging pty 
> support from 
> one cygwin app to another.  The only way I can possibly see 
> for a process 
> to monitor the output to a console in win32 is to 
> periodically poll the 
> frame buffer with ReadConsoleOutput(), as I said before... but that's 
> inefficient, and complicated, not to mention that it assumes 
> that the app 
> does not create a new frame buffer and use that.
> 
> As a test, maybe you could try running our notevil.exe from 
> the rosapps 
> module in an ssh session.
> 

I don't actually have sshd running on my machines... but it's relatively
easy to setup - why not grab it and see :]

Rob

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