SSH plugin can't connect to windows server using a unix like shell

[Febbe]

Type: Bug

1. Install MSYS2
2. Follow https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Setting-up-SSHd/ to setup a msys shell as ssh shell
3. Try to connect to it via vscode (e.g localhost)
4. Choose Windows

=> Infinite loop

Extension version: 0.107.1
VS Code version: Code 1.85.1 (0ee08df0cf4527e40edc9aa28f4b5bd38bbff2b2, 2023-12-13T09:49:37.021Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621
Modes:
Remote OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621
MSYS2 env: MINGW64_NT-10.0-22621 /ucrt64

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor (12 x 4691)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	31.12GB (20.27GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 8e8ea078-e107-4558-8c6b-1428dbbf51f7
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	SSH: localhost

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[Febbe]

Tried to connect to a msys2 ssh shell as workaround for: microsoft/vscode#184534 and microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools#2447

[joshspicer]

I've never heard of msys2 before. If you're still looking for support here, could you share little bit about it? I'm not sure if it's something we can support with minimal effort, or if it's similar to supporting another operating system.

[Febbe]

Hey Josh, you can read more about msys2 here: https://www.msys2.org/docs/what-is-msys2/. Basically, it's a combination of tools which provides a Unix-like environment on Windows. With its own shell, its own environment, with Unix like tools.
It is basically the way to go when you want to port/compile/natively run software which was originally written for Unix systems.

What I tried to do was to connect to a msys2 shell via the vscode-ssh-plugin, since the target project is a UNIX/MSYS2 project, with configuration files requiring Unix paths and applications. This resulted in the described loop. Supposedly due to the fact, that the MSYS shell requires UNIX paths and the ssh plugin assumes windows paths.

[joshspicer]

Would you mind also including you log showing the infinite loop (there could be a workaround if we know where it's looping)

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