[PATCH]: Patch to fix hang on exit bug under Linux and add optional exit delay

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:00:13PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:44:51AM -0500, Ed Phillips wrote:
> > If ssh goes away, SIGPIPE is more likely.  If you really want to end your
> > session, then just kill ssh... the rest of the processes on the server
> > side should go away, shouldn't they?
> 
> i sent a patch to the list, for transfering signals over
> the wire, but nobody seemed to care.

I care... But I won't get around to testing the latest OpenSSH or signal
forwarding for some time.

> e.g. currently for
> 	$ ssh host 'tail -f bla | grep bla'
> 	^C
> tail and grep still run on the remote host.

Shouldn't sshd kill -HUP the process groups of its sessions when the
client closes them??

Doing that would give those procs a chance to exit cleanly and avoid
data loss altogether.

> -m


Cheers,

Nico
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