sshd hangs on logout -- is this a bug?

[Nicolas Williams]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:16:43AM +0200, Sturle Sunde wrote:
> [Quoting reformatted for readability]
> 
> Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:57:51PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> >> In the changelog, there is an entry:
> >> 
> >> 20001129
> >>  - (djm) Back out all the serverloop.c hacks. sshd will now hang again
> >>    if there are background children with open fds.
> >>
> >> Does this mean that this is regarded as expected (and correct)
> >> behavior, that should not change in the future, or does it mean
> >> that this behavior is a known problem that someone will eventually
> >> fix?
> >
> > This is normal behaviour for RSH and is natural behaviour anyways.
> 
> Not if you enter an interactive session (and rsh become rlogin).

Ah, yes.

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Nico
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