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Re: channel-request



der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost> writes:

> Reading connect-18, I see that CHANNEL_REQUEST says that "If want reply
> is FALSE, no response will be sent to the request"; it also says that
> "If the request is not recognized or is not supported for the channel,
> SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_FAILURE is returned".

If you set want_reply = FALSE, the other end must *not* send any reply
to the request. It doesn't matter if the request succeeds or fails,
and it doesn't matter why it fails if it fails.

/Niels



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