Subject: Re: Issue in reading message sent from remote process

Re: Issue in reading message sent from remote process

From: Narayani <drop2nanni_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:57:50 -0700

Thanks Peter for your quick reply. Your inputs were
helpful, I was able to resolve the issue.

Thanks,
Narayani

On 3 October 2012 15:02, Peter Stuge <peter_at_stuge.se> wrote:

> Narayani wrote:
> > I am facing an issue while using libssh2.
>
> Actually I disagree. Your issue is with designing a remote process
> communication protocol which runs on top of SSH. This has absolutely
> nothing to do with libssh2.
>
>
> > I am not sure how to access this data in the remote node.
>
> That depends on how you design your remote process communication
> protocol which runs on top of SSH. How you do that is entirely up
> to you, the SSH protocol and thus libssh2 only offers you a secure
> 8-bit clean transport, nothing else.
>
>
> > I tried using 'read' (not libssh2 read) from stdout
>
> Yes, your remote process communication protocol will likely make use
> of stdin, stdout and perhaps also stderr on the server side.
>
> If you like you can also choose to implement using an SSH subsystem.
> In my opinion they are quite under-utilized.
>
>
> > but it does not work.
>
> We can not magically know why.
>
> You have a problem in your systems programming code in your
> application protocol, so you have to debug it.
>
> Your libssh2 source code is rather messy, I think you would find it
> easier to debug your protocol if you first clean up the source.
>
> You seem to be using a session channel with a shell in a pty, I don't
> know if that is on purpose or by accident, but you should know that
> it is has quite extensive consequences which you need to be familiar
> with in order to use the channel successfully.
>
> Since you didn't write anything about the desired semantics of what
> you want to develop it's impossible to give any advice on what you
> should or should not use.
>
>
> //Peter
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