hang on exit

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Tue Feb 5 07:40:16 EST 2002


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:14:18PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:04:51PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > What's up with this? Why a server-side patch? I thought we'd all agreed
> > that this needs to be a client-side decision.
> 
> because
> 	a) people expect telnet-like behaviour,
> 	b) it needs to work with existing installations and

Is this what other SSH implementations do? Or do they handle this on the
client side?

If most SSH impl do this on the server side then I think you're right
that the expectation is that so should OpenSSH, ugly though that is.

> 	c) the patch is simple.

What about my other question, about the API for forcing channel
closures?

Nico
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