Re: Help With Reading Output Data

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:47:10 CET Wesley Witt wrote:
> I'm just starting my use of libssh and am having problems reading output
> from an executed command. I've read the docs & tutorials but haven't found
> anything to address my problems.
> 
> My basic sequence goes like this:
> 
> 1: connect & auth
> 2: ssh_channel_new, ssh_channel_open_session, ssh_channel_request_exec
> 3: loop on ssh_channel_read_nonblocking to read all output resulting from
> starting the command 4: ssh_channel_write to send some input to the
> command. this results in the command generating some output response 5:
> loop on ssh_channel_read_nonblocking to read all output resulting from
> starting the command
> 
> The problem is that at #5 there is no output data. If I sleep for 3 seconds
> before reading the output then I get the output that I already read at #3.
> 
> What am I doing wrong with this basic scenario?

Patches to improve the documentation are very welcome :)



	Andreas

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