[ale] ssh stalls (OT - cygwin)

[David Corbin]

On Saturday 22 October 2005 12:55 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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.

Well, in this particular case, the local one.  Changing it to the remote would 
not doubt fix it.  But that command is just a simplification (for 
demonstration and debugging) of what we need to do where the output from ssh 
is locally piped to another process.