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Re: Bad interaction between svn and OpenSSH auto connection pooling

From: Max Bowsher <maxb1_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2007-03-03 18:35:59 CET

Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Max Bowsher <maxb1@ukf.net> wrote:
>> I wonder why svn kills the ssh processes at all. It seems to me that svn
>> should simply close its pipes to the subprocess, and leave it to the
>> subprocess to determine when to exit.
>>
>> That would solve this problem rather nicely - can anyone see any
>> potential flaws?
>
> Daniel Berlin did (he read our code):
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-11/0194.shtml

Yes, I'm entirely aware of that comment, but it's far too terse to
actually be helpful. It doesn't really explain more than "this was prone
to weird problems".

Max.

Received on Sat Mar 3 18:36:28 2007

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