Re: Channel close logic, needs clarification?

[Markus Friedl <markus.friedl%informatik.uni-erlangen.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:41:00PM +0200, Tatu Ylonen wrote:
> It is legal to send other messages, e.g. channel requests, after both
> sending and receing EOF.

Is it legal to send SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_EXTENDED_DATA after a EOF is
sent?  I asume that the EOF refers to both SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_DATA and
SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_EXTENDED_DATA.

> > The OpenSSH server does not wait for the EOF message from the client.
> > However, since the servers' child process is dead, the server decides
> > that it will not write to more data to the 'stdin' handle and does _not_
> > wait for the EOF message from the client.  This way the the channel is
> > correctly closed.
> 
> It is legal to send SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_CLOSE before receiving/sending EOF

I think this is a typo. Is it really legal to send
a SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_CLOSE before a SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_EOF is sent?

-markus