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Re: vista rsh problem


On Jul  5 18:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  5 18:00, goetz fischer wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >Another Cygwin box.
> > >  
> > not the best test i'd say.
> 
> As valid as any other test.  Did you try against a Cygwin box?
> 
> > >What about my request of a more detailed problem description instead?
> > what else should i say? i submitted the cygcheck output and there's 
> > nothing left to tell.
> 
> Too bad.  There would be so much to tell and test, like, say, looking
> for firewall settings, looking for other software know to interfere with
> Cygwin (Dave?  Your call!), telling us the OS of the server (given that
> you think it might be important), and what not.
> [...]

So much for useful problem reports.  I tried it with a rsh/rlogin server
on a RHEL4 machine and I could reproduce the hang.  It turned out that
it has nothing to do with rsh, but with rlogin.  It has nothing to do
with Cygwin from CVS, but it also happens with the current 1.5.24 and
older releases.  It has nothing to do with Vista, it also happens on
other Windows versions.

The problem is a race condition in rlogin when setting the tty mode to
!ECHO/!ICANON which for some reason only occurs in the standard Windows
console in notty mode.  I've uploaded a new version of inetutils which
hopefully fixes this problem.


Corinna

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