Hi all again,
Two years ago I proposed a patch to support multithreading in ssh-agent
to speedup authorization against large number of hosts. The discussion
ended with:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Damien Miller wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, alex@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Is there any hope for threaded ssh-agent to be included in the
main trunk?
No, sorry - we have no desire to make any part of OpenSSH multithreaded,
especially something as sensitive as ssh-agent.
We might consider an alternate design that used fork() if it were simple
enough, but I'd encourage you to hold off as I plan on refactoring some
of the agent code in the next release.
What is your current opinion on the topic? Most of the code in
ssh-agent.c has not changed, so my patch still works with minor changes.
Will you accept threaded design now?
Thank you,
Alexander.
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