[Bug 1473] Add option to save PID of a backgrounded ssh process

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473

--- Comment #6 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> 2009-12-26 23:41:48 EST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> @Damien: The ControlMaster feature is very cool, but you can't
> (currently) port-forward with the slaves, so if you're trying to
> set up multiple port forwardings, it doesn't help.

You are correct that it cannot configure port-forwardings (yet - see
bug #1617. I hope to fix this before 5.4), but it does help - it gives
you exactly what a pidfile does as afar as being able to control a
running daemon.

> I think i have an idea - mktemp a directory, then start several
> independent control master connections, one for each forwarded port,
> with control paths mktemp'd (or otherwise) in that directory, running
> with -f. To shut them down, for-loop over the files in the directory
> and do -O exit to close the connections. It's anything but pretty, but
> it should work (a classic shell script, then!).

Yes, this is what I mean.

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