Why does scp leave ssh running? -- select() never returns

[Patrick Doyle]

Great...I'll give it a try sometime tonight or over the weekend &
hopefully post a patch soon.

--wpd

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> Patrick Doyle wrote:
> > If that is the case, would anybody mind if I posted a (simple) patch to
> > openSSH code which added a timeout to the call(s) to select()?  If I do
> > that, will the patch be incorporated into the cygwin release of
> > openSSH?  Is there some way to feed that patch back to the openSSH
> > development team?
> 
> I am that way.
> 
> However, your patch should be clean in terms of OS handling.
> 
> I recommend using the already used construct:
> 
> #ifdef HAVE_CYGWIN
>   if (! is_winnt)
>     {
>       ...your w9x specific code...
>     }
> #endif
> 
> The definition of is_winnt is used eg. in `cygwin_utils.c':
> 
> #define is_winnt       (GetVersion() < 0x80000000)
> 
> Corinna
> 
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