Regarding hanging of ssh upon exit

[John Bowman]

> a) the workaround in the FAQ seems useless: after all one doesn't want 
>    the new process to be killed.
Agreed.

> b) the "TODO" file states "All current solutions break scp or leave
>    processes hanging around after the ssh connection has ended."
>    But the latter is exactly what one wants in the case of a nohup
>    process. So wouldn't it be possible to implement one of these "current
>   solutions" for this situation?
Yes, such a patch already exists for Linux:

http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/

-- John Bowman
University of Alberta