Subject: Re: [libssh2] Patch to report the remote error message when using scp

Re: [libssh2] Patch to report the remote error message when using scp

From: James Housley <jim_at_thehousleys.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 06:17:46 -0400

On Jul 5, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Gavrie Philipson wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> I'll admit that I'm not very familiar with the libssh2 code; this was
> just a first attempt.
> Now, I did test my patch on several remote hosts, not just on
> localhost, and it worked. Of course this may have been just a matter
> of luck, since all data could have been returned from the remote host
> (admittedly on the same LAN) in one packet.
>
> The question of termination of the message is indeed valid. I've taken
> a look at the OpenSSH code; it seems they are looking for a newline
> terminator as well, so that could be test best thing to do.
> As for the spec -- I've searched in vain for any kind of spec for the
> scp protocol (actually it's the rcp protocol in disguise) but could
> not find anything...

Looking more it seems that it probably shouldn't return
PACKET_EAGAIN, because we should be reading from a packet we already
received. But, I did a more complete patch that actually finds the
size of the error message.

Jim

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Received on 2007-07-05