Solution found! :-) In short, we have to set the C flag PTY_ZEROREAD in the configure phase of the compilation.

In the channels.c file of te source code we can see where the error is thrown ,,,

#ifndef PTY_ZEROREAD
    if (len <= 0) {
#else
    if ((!c->isatty && len <= 0) ||
        (c->isatty && (len < 0 || (len == 0 && errno != 0)))) {
#endif
        debug2("channel %d: read<=0 rfd %d len %zd",
            c->self, c->rfd, len);
        if (c->type != SSH_CHANNEL_OPEN) {
            debug2("channel %d: not open", c->self);
            chan_mark_dead(ssh, c);
            return -1;
        } else {
            chan_read_failed(ssh, c);
        }
        return -1;
    }

And we can see that the compilation flag PTY_ZEROREAD changes how the zero length messages are treated in terminals.

To solve the problem the configure command has to be done with the C flag set as shown in the last line of the following command:

./configure --with-zlib           \
        --with-pam                \
        --with-md5-passwords      \
        CFLAGS="-DPTY_ZEROREAD=1"

Solution found! :-) In short, we have to set the C flag PTY_ZEROREAD in the configure phase of the compilation.

In the channels.c file of te source code we can see where the error is thrown ...

#ifndef PTY_ZEROREAD
    if (len <= 0) {
#else
    if ((!c->isatty && len <= 0) ||
        (c->isatty && (len < 0 || (len == 0 && errno != 0)))) {
#endif
        debug2("channel %d: read<=0 rfd %d len %zd",
            c->self, c->rfd, len);
        if (c->type != SSH_CHANNEL_OPEN) {
            debug2("channel %d: not open", c->self);
            chan_mark_dead(ssh, c);
            return -1;
        } else {
            chan_read_failed(ssh, c);
        }
        return -1;
    }

And we can see that the compilation flag PTY_ZEROREAD changes how the zero length messages are treated in terminals.

To solve the problem the configure command has to be done with the C flag set as shown in the last line of the following command:

./configure --with-zlib           \
        --with-pam                \
        --with-md5-passwords      \
        CFLAGS="-DPTY_ZEROREAD=1"