Problems with the rexd and rshd daemons in Interactive 386/ix 2.0.2

[Anthony Shipman]

In article <1112 at appli.se>, niklas at appli.se (Niklas Hallqvist) writes:
> 
> 	Hello, out there. 
.......
> 	And then there's this "remote shell" handle by /etc/rshd on the
> 386/ix.  Very often (not always, though) my client "remsh" on another node
> gets hung after sending the standard input to the foreign shell.  Very
> annoying indeed!  After I kill the client the daemon continues as if nothing
> has happenned.  It seems like the EOF gets lost on the way, but reappears if
> I kill the client.

This used to happen with me when trying to pipe a file from a non 386/ix system
to 386/ix 2.0.1 rshd. It would happen 100% of the time. However when the 
sender was killed the missing EOF would go through and the command would
complete properly.

I count this as a bug in 386/ix TCP/IP. Some other programs would not talk to
foreign tcp/ip nodes properly, sometimes coming, sometimes going. There was
even incompatibility between different versions of 386/ix. It appears that
386/ix was only tested with itself (at least at Rev 2.0.?).
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