Regarding hanging of ssh upon exit

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:49:23AM -0400, Erik Luijten wrote:
> It is stated that this has to do with the fact that children of the shell
> are not killed upon exiting the shell. However, the problem also occurs if
> a process is started with 'nohup'. This is very annoying, because it is
> not uncommon to connect to a remote machine, start a lengthy
> computation with 'nohup' and then exit. My point now is the following:

Based on someone else's statement and verified by my own observations (HP-UX):
the hanging ssh connection is not caused by the child processes, but by
the child processes still having file descriptors open.
I have since then solved the problem by redirecting the file descriptors
  command > /dev/null 2>&1 etc etc
Of course you may consider something different than /dev/null in order
to catch the output...

Best regards,
	Lutz
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