so-called-hang-on-exit

[Damien Mascord]

So,

You reach a certain timeout, and you get notified of something like:

"Badly written shell processes are running, please hit ~ to force ssh 
connection closure."

Then every end user knows about the "way to close ssh even when shell 
scripts are badly written", and they also get notified of the fact that 
something they did in their session was "wrong", so they can even rectify 
that problem.

The end user is not aware that the things they did were "wrong", most 
probably because most other remote "shells" behave differently, so since 
OpenSSHs behaviour is not "common" then the end user should be made aware.

Damien

At 04:18 PM 5/08/2002 -0700, Michael Robinton wrote:
>BTW, it's not a "so-called-hang-on-exit". It DOES hang on exit, there is
>no question about it. The discussion is about how to fix it. Claiming that
>it is "proper" doesn't fix the problem or keep people for reporting it as
>a bug over and over again. The client user really does want the process to
>close when you say "exit", notwithstanding that there may be and
>outstanding process that could possibly return data. Such is life.
>
> >> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:53:32PM -0700, Michael Robinton wrote:
> >> sysadmin who is merely and innocent victim of the ssh server. Upon
> >>logout the terminal window hangs....
> >>
> >... and the admin presses ~. if he really want's to close
> >the connection. so what's the problem?
> >
> >-m
>
>The problem is that it affects not only the knowledgable?? sysadmins but
>all users. It is a nusiance and an agravation. Some users don't know
>about ~ and some scripts which start remote processes via ssh get stuck
>with a hung connection. What's the problem with having sshd close the
>connects AS ASKED by sshd-config option which you can set to leave your
>system hanging if you wish to do so??? Please don't force the rest of us
>to deal with a hung script or blank window when we want to EXIT just
>becasue you think we should not loose the data we clearly don't want.
>Additionally, I really don't want my systems cluttered up with hung sshd
>processes started by remote users that can't figure out how to deal with a
>difficult implementation of ssh.
>
>I'm not bitching about ssh or the development. I think it's a fine program
>and you are all to be commended for it's development and improvement. But,
>lets get real about what users (not always so bright) and daemon
>developers (sometimes really dim) expect from ssh. When I log off a
>terminal window, I expect it to close. When I start a remote daemon, I
>expect to be able to disconnect from the remote host whether it is via a
>terminal window or a script.
>
>Michael
>
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