Re: Draft authors' comments on EOF? (Was: RE: closing a channel)

[Timo J Rinne <tri%ssh.com@localhost>]

denis bider writes:
> Ylonen, Kivinen, Saarinen, Rinne, Lehtinen - you are the authors of the SSH
> Connection Protocol draft. What do you think? Will you augment the draft
> with a more concise specification of what EOF means and what it doesn't?
> 
> Especially with regard to the following:
> 
> - Is EOF just a hint or not? (I hope it's not.)

No.  It does have very clear semantics.

> - Does it apply to extended data or not? (I hope it does.)

Yes.  No more data to the channel after EOF.  At least that was the
idea when I was more involved with the drafts.  And extended data is
data too in this respect.

> - How does it relate to channel requests and responses? What about window
> adjustment messages? Are any of these allowed to be sent after EOF?

Nope, if they refer to the closed channel.

//Rinne