[mosh-devel] Status of two submitted patches

[Alex Chernyakhovsky]

I wonder if it's possible for mosh to switch back to the old self-pipe
code, now that ftpmaster has approved of mosh, and "sneak it in".

-Alex


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Quentin Smith <quentin at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
>
>  Keegan: Can you weigh in here on whether we depend on pselect()'s
>>> atomicity and whether this usage here is ok in practice?
>>>
>>
>> If the code in the client or the server had called select with an
>> infinite timeout, then I would have worried a bit more.
>>
>> A correct but more portable alternative would be the "self-pipe" trick.
>>
>> http://cr.yp.to/docs/selfpipe.**html <http://cr.yp.to/docs/selfpipe.html>
>>
>
> Mosh actually used to do exactly that, but then we had to rip the code out
> because of Debian politics. (We used the implementation from libstddjb, and
> Debian insisted that we couldn't duplicate code from another package - even
> though we needed the code to be built in a different way.)
>
> --Quentin
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