Re: ssh_channel_read - expected behavior?

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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