Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:17:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Cc: Egor Duda Subject: Re: [starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk: 1.3.2 -> 1.3.3: ssh-add fails on win98: "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."] Message-ID: <20010913211721.A26382@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com, Egor Duda References: <20010913141057 DOT V1285 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20010913211216 DOT A26350 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010913211216.A26350@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:12:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>[Grmbl, I've sent that using the wrong `From' address first] >> >>Egor, >> >>is it possible that this is a result of a failed secret check? >> >>I have straced ssh-add on a 98 system and the connect to the >>ssh-agent fails with WSAECONNREFUSED. The strace output also >>shows an `accept from unauthorized server' message. I wouldn't >>understand why, though. > >I think I've checked in a fix for this. > >The new cygheap copying code made a snapshot of the cygheap prior to >starting a process. That means that any socket information that was >being recorded in the parent was not getting transmitted to the child. ...since the socket info was happening after the child was started... cgf