Don't throw away data that we receive before we're ready for it. Just save

it up for later.  This should prevent hangs when talking to particularly
enthusiastic servers.

Thanks to JCA for tracking this bug down.

[originally from svn r7651]

diff --git a/pscp.c b/pscp.c
index 8e082e732ff2c73a462664153e39f9bb46aedacc..e208157b5f3fcf6dcc35edd961d633c24691158d 100644 (file)
--- a/pscp.c
+++ b/pscp.c
@@ -180,12 +180,6 @@ int from_backend(void *frontend, int is_stderr, const char *data, int datalen)
        return 0;
     }
 
-    /*
-     * If this is before the real session begins, just return.
-     */
-    if (!outptr)
-       return 0;
-
     if ((outlen > 0) && (len > 0)) {
        unsigned used = outlen;
        if (used > len)