Why does scp leave ssh running? -- select() never returns

Wed Nov 29 19:41:00 GMT 2000

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:22:03PM -0500, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>So, a few questions...
>1) Is this behavior (of PeekNamedPipe()) a W9x bug? (That is, does it
>work correctly on NT/2K?)

I think you are correct. It is a w9x bug. I vaguely recall seeing this
before.
I can't think of any way to work around this, unfortunately. I remember trying
things like zero byte reads on the pipe but they didn't do anything.
The only way to trigger the EOF is to actually read from the pipe.
cgf
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