hanging on logout, can't background client

[Markus Friedl]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:42:25PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Unfortunately, OpenSSH denies me the use of ~&, which I consider a bug.
> It also denies me the use of /any other escape sequence/, which I consider
> a serious bug.

well ~& does not work in ssh2

but ~. should work unless ssh gets EOF from stdin.
at this point ssh cannot read any more ~. escapes.