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Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem]
- From: "Bob Byrnes" <byrnes at curl dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:53:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem]
- Organization: Curl Corporation
> But native apps are not our first concern ...
OK, but native apps are a big concern for us (and perhaps others).
We use ...
ssh build-server-running-cygwin "make everything" > log-file
... and the Makefiles run lots of win32 native build tools.
> ... and the above can also easily be done with
>
> ssh -t cygwin-system-with-sshd-using-sockpairs "win32-native-command"
Allocating a pty does change the behavior of some programs, like ls.
People (or scripts) might be surprised by the behavior of ...
ssh -t cygwin-system ls | grep whatever
... because ls is going to do multi-column output.
Also, I wonder about the performance impact of allocating a pty.
Probably minimal compared to the ssh authentication stuff, but
it would be nice to avoid the extra mechanism when it's not needed.
--
Bob