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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:39:06 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: On Win98, connections hang when using remote command execution with SSHD.
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In-Reply-To: <001b01c1352c$f9f1efa0$0100a8c0@duron>; from wuebbel@math.uni-muenster.de on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:33:00PM +0200

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:33:00PM +0200, Frank Wuebbeling wrote:
> 
> > Using "remote command execution" or in other words a non interactive
> > connection to the SSHD server process seems to hang on Win98
> 
> Same problem here.  Forcing terminal allocation with -t probably solves
> *your* problem, but at least with me creates a new, nastier one. Please do
> me the favor and try it:
> 
> -> try "ssh -t localhost id". Will probably work, provided you have setup
> your access correctly.
> -> try "while true; do ssh -t localhost id; done". Will work about seven
> times, and then send sshd to hell.
> 
> anybody has a solution for this?

Not a solution, just a guess. Try a developers snapshot of Cygwin.
It's not that likely to help since the problem is probably induced
by the crappy pipe handling of 9x/ME, but...

Corinna

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