[Bug 501959] [NEW] ssh2_exec completely broken

[greenmoss]

Public bug reported:

Environment:

$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"

$ dpkg -l libssh2-php
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name              Version           Description
+++-=================-=================-==================================================
ii  libssh2-php       0.11.0-2          PHP Bindings for libssh2


Problem description:

I have a PHP script which attempts to do some SSH operations on another
host. This script was originally running on a Gentoo machine, also
version 0.11. It worked fine there, with code such as:

        $ssh_connection = ssh2_connect($ssl_host, 22);
        $stream = ssh2_exec($ssh_connection, "ls /etc/ssl/people/$user");
        stream_set_blocking($stream, true);
        $ssl_files = split("\n", stream_get_contents($stream));

On the Ubuntu host, the PHP script returns inconsistent results:
sometimes $ssl_files returns nothing, sometimes a few things, sometimes
everything. I get the same inconsistent results when trying several
variations: fetch from stream using fread, pass in pty (third argument)
as FALSE. At least one other person on the internet is also experiencing
this problem:

http://www.frostjedi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=13223


Please fix this; this whole package is next to useless unless ssh2_exec
works.

** Affects: php-ssh2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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ssh2_exec completely broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501959
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