hang on exit bug under Linux

[Nicolas Williams]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:28:19PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > for rlogin-like behaviour (i.e. a pty is allocated) it might
> > be an option to discard data, like telnetd/rlogind do.
> 
> I could fix up my patch to only apply when ssh is invoked as slogin and
> change the configuration directive name to reflect this..
> 
> Should I bother?

Yes.

> Also, since the background mode isn't working the way I want it to and I
> don't know enough to fix it, I'd very much appreciate pointers..
> Nicolas mentioned some Stevens books?  What are they?  Available online?

Search for books with "W. Richard Stevens" as the author, and titles
that start with "UNIX Network Programming ..." and "TCP/IP Illustrated
...".

> (The deal is that I want to make a certain PID a child of a different PID
> than it is right now.)

You can't do that.

You can put ssh into the background by forking off a child and exiting,
but then the shell cannot bring that child back to the foreground.
Which makes the background option not so useful. Perhaps you can just
have ssh send itself a SIGTSTP, but then you have to rely on the user to
ask the shell to actually background the process.

> //Peter
> 

Cheers,

Nico
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