On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Matt Welland <estifo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Matt Welland <estifo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm... your point about the remote login is curious. I assumed that
>>> fossil was doing something like this (I'm using faux code here):
>>>
>>> inport, outport = popen2("ssh", "-e", "none", "user@host", "fossil",
>>> ... )
>>>
>>> but it sounds like what is actually being done is (I have not grokked
>>> the code well enough to confirm yet) the following:
>>>
>>> inport, outport = popen2("ssh", "-e", "none", "user@host", "/bin/sh")
>>> ...
>>> print outport "fossil ... params"
>>>
>>
>> Fossil needs to run multiple commands. /bin/sh is convenient to do
>> this. If that is a really serious problem for the occasional csh system,
>> then we could, in theory, create a new fossil command to take care of that
>> for us: "fossil test-sh". Then run:
>>
>> popen2("ssh", "-e", "none", "user@host", "fossil", "test-sh");
>>
>> It seems silly to have to duplicate the functionality of /bin/sh inside
>> of Fossil though, doesn't it?
>>
>
> Agreed! Also, this may or may not even fix the problem. Now that you
> describe this I realize I was assuming the problem was on the remote side.
> If it was the remote side then the popen call will have nothing to do with
> it since the /bin/sh is happening on the local side.
>
> The layers should be ....
>
> Local side: /bin/sh -> ssh
> Remote side: /bin/tcsh -> fossil
>
The command:
ssh -e none user@host /bin/sh
should cause /bin/sh to be run on the remote side, without a pseudo-tty.
So, I'm not sure where tcsh even comes into play here. Maybe if you try
changing the initialization command to:
ssh -e none user@host exec /bin/sh
Does that make a difference?
--
D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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