[ale] ssh stalls (OT - cygwin)

[Geoffrey]

David Corbin wrote:

> But we do want to wait for it to complete.

Ooops my bad.

> 
> In fact, we've actually boiled the problem down to this:
> 
> "ssh user at host ls c:/" succeeds, but "ssh user at host ls c:/ | wc -l" hangs.  
> This definately varies for different machines, but we've not been able to 
> figure out what is different between the machines

Do you expect the 'wc -l' to be produced by the remote or the local 
machine?  Try it both ways and see if you get rid of the hang problem.

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Until later, Geoffrey