Latest version of SSH and WinCVS Problems

[Andrew Chang]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:00:28AM +0200, Gerrit Cap wrote:
>> Hello Cygwin users,
>> 
>> 
>> I have exactly the same problem. After upgrading to cygwin-1.3.11-3 from 
>> cygwin-1.3.10 WinCVS chokes on using the cygwin ssh. The problem is 
>> carriage return linefeed stuff related. Apparently if wincvs connects to a 
>> cvs server using ssh with the "old" cygwin dll everything works fine, but 
>> with the new cygwin dll, Wincvs gets an extra character after the ok 
>> response from the cvs server before the expected newline which resolves in 
>> the cvs program included with wincvs not recognizing the ok.
>> 
>> I guess something like this is happening
>> 
>> cvs server sends ok\n -> ssh protocol -> ssh.exe client of cygwin using 
>> 1.3.10 dll -> ok\n to WinCVS
>> cvs server sends ok\n -> ssh protocol -> ssh.exe client of cygwin using 
>> 1.3.11 dll -> ok\r\n to WinCVS which then says:
>> "cvs: update: unrecognized response: `ok
>> ` received" as an error message
>> 
>> I also tried to remove cygwin and change the initial choice of "DOS" files 
>> to "UNIX" files or vice versa without result
>> 
>> Was there a specific reason why the cygwin-1.3.11 dll was changed for this ?

> In theory it should be the other way around since 1.3.11 tries to
> do everything in UNIX mode if the user doesn't say different.

> Could you play with the CYGWIN setting 'binmode', please?

> Corinna

FYI, I see the same problem when using BitKeeper with ssh,
I tried setting CYGWIN to binmode in the control panel and reboot,
I even force setmode(.., _O_BINARY) when I setup the pipe
before I spawn ssh, no luck, ssh still want to run in text mode. I ended up 
grabing the ssh source, forcing a setmode(0, _O_BINARY) in the main()
of ssh.c, that did the trick. It is a good enough workaround, I suspect 
the real fix is in the cygwin dll. This did not happen in the cygwin 1.3.10 dll.





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