todays update affect on telnet, rlogin & rsh

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed May 23 08:24:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:44:04AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:58:49PM -0400, Mark Keil wrote:
> > Corinna,
> > 
> > Sorry, being 3 deep in interrupts I didn't proof that line.
> > 
> > It should read:
> > If I run inetd from the command line, rsh no longer works, 
> > it just hangs.
> > 
> > In fact it hangs on stdin, a ^d will get it to close.
> > It ignores the command after the machine name.
> > echo pwd | rsh ntbox echo xxx
> > results in: //server/homedir
> > and not in: xxx
> > 
> > Any insight is appreciated.
> 
> Sure, rshd is crap. That doesn't help? I know. I have changed
> rshd in the meantime so that it works more reliable but I'm
> not yet finished and the fact remains the same: rshd is crap.

I'm just uploading a -14 version which contains a rearranged
rshd. Should arrive on the mirrors tomorrow. It will still have
errors but it should really behave more reliable than before.
 
Corinna

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