Re: About non-blocking mode usage

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 November 2014 09:58:32 Doug Judd wrote:
> I confronted this issue as well.  The documentation is lacking in this
> area.  It appears that most of the APIs, when they return SSH_AGAIN, it
> means that you need to wait until the underlying socket becomes ready for
> reading.  I found this to be true for both connection establishment APIs
> and command execution APIs.  I suppose that if you issue commands that are
> large, ssh_channel_request_exec() could return SSH_AGAIN and require you to
> wait until the socket becomes ready for writing, however, I'm not 100% sure
> on this.

Patches to fix the documentation are very welcome!


	-- andreas

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