On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:14:34PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote: > I was able to sometimes reproduce this on Debian by connecting to the > server PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive then *immediately* > cancelling the authentication with ctrl-C. > > After some digging I think I have found the cause: waitpid will return > zero if the process has not exited and none of the conditions listed > under "ERRORS" in the man page have been met. Attached is a patch to > test for this too (which it should have done in the first place, sigh). > > I have not been able to reproduce the problem with this patch.
That makes good sense to me, since in an strace here I'm seeing waitpid() returning zero. > (Interestingly, I was not able to reproduce it on Redhat by doing the > same thing. I'm not sure why, but Debian is running on faster, dual CPU > box so it could be a timing issue.) I can't reproduce it on Debian powerpc, which had been doing my head in; I can well believe a timing issue. I'm applying your patch and will upload shortly after a bit of testing. Thanks! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
