Rtems telnetd/shell question

[Chris Johns]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Well I should have read this before I posted.  I saw
> a private question about this scenario and duplicated it.
> This is the same thing I am seeing with telnetd.
> In 4.9, you got the login prompt again but reconnection
> worked.
> 
> --joel
> 
> Peter Dufault wrote:
>> I'm trying to use the RTEMS shell with the RTEMS telnetd, and it 
>> hangs  when I close down telnet.  If I close down the telnet session 
>> the  shell task that was spawned by telnetd gets stuck forever in  
>> rtems_shell_line_editor() in the "empty line" logic at line 755 where  
>> it thinks it read a blank line, tries to prompt and doesn't see the  
>> error, and loops forever.
>>

I suspect we need to handle a read of the fd better. Closing a remote 
end of a socket always returns a length of 0. I do not know how this is 
handled with fget.

>> I can't "exit" the telnet shell, either, it just restarts itself  
>> without closing the telnet connection.  I tried detecting the error  
>> when the shell printed the prompt and treating it as an EOF but that  
>> doesn't help, it must be trying to restart itself.
>>

Hmmm, I agree with you that the session should end.

Peter, any chance you can look at this for us ?

Regards
Chris