Dropbear 0.50 server returnsexit code 255 to ssh when app returns 0

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 03 March 2008 14:12:05 Steven Hein wrote:
> Matt--
>
> I tested 0.50 with the common-channel.c patch below,
> and it worked as expected (always returned the
> remote command's exit code correctly).
>
> As you said, it does cause the "sleep 10 & hello"
> command to return immediately after echoing
> "hello", leaving the "sleep 10" running on the remote
> host.

Which is actually the behavior you want (and what telnet does, and xterm...)

It's a longstanding _bug_ that openssh doesn't do that.

Rob
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