[6663] in Kerberos
Re: rlogin (why connections close ?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Feb 15 19:08:41 1996
To: b36prs@athena.cpe.ku.ac.th (Poon Rojanasoonthon)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Date: 15 Feb 1996 19:01:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: b36prs@athena.cpe.ku.ac.th's message of 15 Feb 1996 11:20:02 GMT
>>>>> "Poon" == Poon Rojanasoonthon <b36prs@athena.cpe.ku.ac.th> writes:
Poon> As I used to use "rlogin" on SunOS, it didn't say
Poon> 'connections close' when it use "ctrl-c" but when I used
Poon> rlogin incldued with kerberos V5 dist 950505, it always
Poon> close my connection when I use 'ctrl-c'. Did I miscompiled
Poon> the kerberos or it's its characterestic ?
Poon> TIA, Poon Rojanasoonthon
This bug is fixed in the next release of Kerberos in that the
rlogin client will not drop the connection. See the discussion of OOB
data for an explanation of why it cannot be completely fixed to
transport the oob control sequences under all situations.
In short, TCP has a fairly useless urgent data mechanism. BSD
uses this to implement OOB data in such a way that OOB data is worse
than totally useless under BSD.
--Sam
