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Fix handling of output streams, including in cases of error.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start in lib/sshkit/backends/netssh.rb around the stream handling linked in the issue, and read how Net::SSH packets are processed. Create the requested test script covering buffered and unbuffered, line-wise and character-wise stdout and stderr, including error cases; done means the tests demonstrate reliable stream handling.

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Description

In SSHKit we do some weird stuff with stream handling depending on the packets (sic) we receive back from Net::SSH.

I'd like to write a test case script that produces buffered, and unbuffered output, line- and character-wise, on standard error, and standard out to test the correct usage.

With a pathologically badly behaved script, we could find a way to make this work reliably, I am sure.

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