Comment 35 for bug 483928

Created attachment 2021
Withdraw patch attachment #2018.

This missive just obsoletes(withdraws) the current variant of the patch. We just had a bad network glitch here and, because of it, ssh-keyscan called the `select()' function in the `packet_read_seqnr()' function with a NULL timeout value. Since the read wasn't going to receive any data because of the glitch ever, it occasionally did one of those hang forever thingys. The patch still works if your network doesn't glitch like ours did albeit very crudely.

It turns out that the original coders of ssh-keyscan missed(?) a call to the `packet_set_timeout()' function which in turn caused the above referenced NULL. I'm in the process of rewriting the patch to include a "set" call.

FWIW - bugzilla won't let me subit this withour a non-null file. The new attachment is a NL.