rshd uses pipes to communicate with shell

Corinna Vinschen cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Sun Apr 29 13:08:00 GMT 2001


On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:35:34PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>   is there some special reason for using pipes in rshd? this breaks
> programs that rely on getpeername() for additional security check when
> they're called from rshd.

It's the base implementation. I didn't change anything except for
getting it working. Feel free to change it but be aware of that
annoying socketpair problem some users have. Just in case...

Corinna

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