[darcs-devel] ssh hangs

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

David:

> Just to be clear, the first time I connect with darcs via ssh to a
> particular server, darcs hangs and won't respond to any ordinary kill (or
> ctrl-C).  It can still be killed with kill -9.

Okay, that explains what I've been seeing.

> The silliness of it all is that I use ssh-agent, so the control-master
> stuff is all redundant.

FWIW, it isn't -- you still avoid multiple ssh handshakes.  An ssh
handshake can take up to 10 seconds on a slow connection, and up to
a minute on slow machines.  (And people are setting cheap MIPS and ARM
machines as network servers.)

Erik:

> Sigh.  I don't have time to fix ssh,

Pity.

                                        Juliusz