On Apr 23, 2010, at 21:55:38 PDT, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

Well the change to libxcb fixed things for libxcb and libX11... too bad ssh didn't parse the screen out of $DISPLAY like it's supposed to... =/ I have a workaround for that in libX11 now:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=aae2a4a7aab26de3fa715d6ecd0a0e0926b37fc9

If we ever decide to support multiple X11 screens, we'll need to revert that (and have ssh fixed).

Well this is a Mac OS X only project and you do work for Apple and Apple sure used to include plenty of patches to the included ssh build for 10.5.x (see <http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/OpenSSH/OpenSSH-95.1.5/patches/> for example) -- and it looks like they're still there in the 10.6.x version, except neither the .orig files nor the patches directory is present anymore.

Any chance you could send the appropriate ssh patch along to the internal Apple folks in charge of ssh? (I'd guess Disco Vince Giffin can point you in the correct direction if he's not handling the patches anymore.)

The openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org mailing list is also quite responsive to applying ssh patches -- someone (usually Damien Miller) generally applies reasonable looking patches promptly.

Kyle