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Re: [starksb@ebi.ac.uk: 1.3.2 -> 1.3.3: ssh-add fails on win98: "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."]


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


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