Re: CVS problem with ssh

[Derek Price]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>    Again, we could install loops around fwrite in handle_m, handle_e,
>    handle_mbinary, and handle_mt and transfer most of the data coming
>    across from the server correctly to stdout/stderr,
>
>Why do you say "most"?  I think we have already established that _all_
>the data will be transferred correctly.  Isn't that so?
>
>                                                      but this still
>    wouldn't handle other client output.
>
>Could you describe a case in which there would be a problem?  It would
>have to be a case in which substantial data is forwarded from the
>server, but the client also generates substantial data.
>  
>

The client rarely generates substantial data.  The case I am considering
is when the server dumps a substantial amount of data, followed by any
length printf from the client.  The dump of data from the server could
conceivably fill the stdio buffer without triggering a flush.  Any
printf following that would lose data if the attempted flush returned
EAGAIN.

Regards,

Derek