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Re: ssh client (corinna's port) hangs doing 'cvs update'
- To: Jeffrey Juliano <juliano at cs dot unc dot edu>
- Subject: Re: ssh client (corinna's port) hangs doing 'cvs update'
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:23:07 +0200
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <397C737A.5408963C@cs.unc.edu>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Jeffrey Juliano wrote:
> Unfortunately, I see the same problem when using cygwin latest and
> Corinna's openSSH port. CVS is from the cygutils.netpedia.net. The
> problem occurs on win98, but not winNT, when CVS_RSH=ssh. Here is a
> simple test case (but the problem occurs with *any* cvs operation):
>
> $ cvs -d cystine:$NANOREPOSITORY co -c
> juliano@cystine's password:
> nano nano
> [...]
> At this point, ssh (and thus cvs) is hung. A running ps in a different
> shell reveals:
I just tried that with w98 and I can reproduce that. This doesn't
mean that I know why but I will investigate tomorrow.
> Incidently, what is the "I" that appears at the beginning of the line for
> CVS.EXE?
The `I' stands for process waiting for tty input.
> If I send a TERM signal to the ssh process, then the following happens:
>
> o The message "Killed by signal 15." appears in the window where I ran
> the cvs command.
>
> o ps now lists the ssh process as <defunct>
>
> At this point, the only way I can kill the cvs process is to either press
> ctrl-c in the shell's window, or send it a KILL signal from a different
> shell.
That's a bit complicated. You simply can kill cvs by pressing Ctrl-C
which kills both processes.
> fixes? Do you think it's a bug in ssh or a bug in cvs? Signal handling
This might be a problem in the combination cygwin1.dll/W9X since
that doesn't happen in NT/W2K.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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