Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:00:44 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Openssh 2.3.0p1 weird exec problem, cont. Message-ID: <20001230200044.E882@cobold.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <20001229223005.E4278@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20001229172106.B1194@akamai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 05:21:07PM -0500, bailey9@akamai.com wrote: > That seems to solve the problem for me. Thanks! You _did_ recompile OpenSSH with USE_PIPES and that solves actually the problem? I'm just asking to be really sure. Corinna > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:59:12PM -0500, John Pollock wrote: > > > However, i've only seen this issue with non-cygwin apps (like VC++ and > > > such) which don't seem to understand how to send output reliably when > > > cooperating with a version of ssh using socket pairs instead of pipes. > > > The cygwin version of openssh, i believe ,uses socket pairs and not pipes, > > > which may be the source of the problem. > > > > That's an interesting point. socket pairs are prefered over pipes in > > OpenSSH. Using pipes is a special option. I'm currently on vacation > > and need the time for my move to another town. If somebody is willing > > to build OpenSSH using pipes and test that situation again I would > > gladly appreciate this. > > > > Using pipes instead of socket pairs is easy: After configuring just > > open `defines.h', goto line 378 and remove the comments from this > > line containing `#define USE_PIPES 1', then make. If that solves the > > problem (and still works in all other situations) I will release > > a new Cygwin version of OpenSSH then. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple