dropbear uclinux multiple client sessions

Naveen Mamindlapalli naveen.mamindlapalli at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 19:32:07 AWST 2015


Hi All,

Running from inetd solved the issue of multiple client connections at a time.

There is a limitation with non-inetd mode. Am I correct?

Thanks and Regards,
Naveen

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Naveen Mamindlapalli
<naveen.mamindlapalli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using dropbear sshd v0.52 (non-inetd mode) ported onto uClinux os
> running on ARM cortex M3 processor.
>
> I found that dropbear server is not accepting multiple ssh clients at
> a time. I need to exit the first client & then second client is
> connected. Until then the second client is suspended.
>
> I have debugged the code and found that vfork() in main_noinetd() is
> not returned for parent process & after reading man pages, I found
> that vfork() suspends the parent process until child exits or calls
> execve().
>
> Is there any fix for this issue?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Naveen


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