hang on exit - bug or no bug?

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Tim Rice wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>
> > No, don't modify your OS' startup scripts, just run them differently.
> >
> > Look, the fds are left open, so you potentially lose data, but you don't
> > care, right? So why not run those scripts like so:
> >
> > ssh -n root at somehost /etc/init.d/syslog stop
> > ssh -n root at somehost /etc/init.d/syslog start \>/dev/null 2\>\&1
> >
> > ?
> >
> > You have this issue with RSH too you know. I long ago learned to deal
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> What's bothering so many people, is there are a number of platforms
> where ssh hangs but rsh does not.
> (Anyone have source to Solaris, UnixWare, SCO, ......) ;-)
>
solaris 8 I will admit to having source to..  SCO and UnixWare I don't..
and I don't talk about other ones.. =)  If I know what I was looking for
I'd be happy to beg and borrow selective pieces of source code from
friends to investigate.  But I still am not dead sure what to look for.

- Ben