Re: ssh_channel_read - expected behavior?

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 September 2012 07:34:24 Jonathan Walker wrote:
> We have been seeing closer to around 10 seconds.  Is there an argument we
> can provide to increase/decrease the timeout?  Perhaps we should
> investigate the source code a bit more.

Sounds more like a bug :(


	-- andreas
 
> Thanks for your assistance,
> Jonathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Schneider [mailto:asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 3:06 AM
> To: libssh@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: ssh_channel_read - expected behavior?
> 
> On Thursday 20 September 2012 06:03:16 you wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> 
> Hey,
> 
> 
> > My colleague and I updated our LibSSH library to the most recent
> > source tree around mid-August (we manually built the library).  We
> > noticed that the function "ssh_channel_read" began to behave a bit
> > differently from the previous 0.5.0 library.  I also noticed from the
> > release note of 0.5.2 the
> > following: o
> > Fixed possible infinite loop in channel_read().
> >
> >
> >
> > This leads me to believe that there was indeed a functionality change.
> > We have been noticing that the function periodically returns even if
> > no bytes have been read.  I would assume that this is to prevent
> > getting stuck in the infinite loop as addressed in the note.  Could I
> > get a bit more detail on the expected functionality of this function
> > call?  Can we expect that the function return within x seconds (even if no
> > bytes have been read)?
> 
> We added supports for timeouts, I think the default is 30 seconds. Is that
> the time you notice it?.
 
> 
>         -- andreas
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