so-called-hang-on-exit

[Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com]

I still think this sort of thing should be done by the client.

The client knows everything that the server knows. So the client
can choose to terminate the SSHv2 session when the PTY session
process leader exits - and it can implement any other termination
heuristic you wish too.

Nico
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jani Jaakkola [mailto:jjaakkol at cs.helsinki.fi]
> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: so-called-hang-on-exit
> 

[...]

> OK, now I have implemented it. Currently only for protocol 2, but a 
> similar thing can be implemented for protocol 1 (and the 
> protocol 1 patch 
> would be simpler).
> 
> Here is what it does (or should do; I have made mistakes before):
> 
> - Applies against openssh-3.4p1
> - This patch only changes behavior of ssh protocol 2 sessions 
> with a tty.
>   Everything else should remain as it was.
> - It does its job by reading all immediately available data from the
>   pty when the pty session process dies. This should include all data
>   from the pty session foreground processes.
> - It can and will lose data from pty session background processes.
> - It might still hang indefinetely, if the background processes keep
>   producing more data than the sshd process can read and transfer to 
>   client (so that pty buffer will never get completely 
> empty). I consider 
>   this a feature of this solution, not a bug.

[...]

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