Interest in ssh-agent connection retry patch?

[Dan Kaminsky]

> I wrote a patch to make the number of times and and the delay between
retries
> that ssh attempts to talk to ssh-agent configurable. This patch is
> indispensible when running multiple ssh sessions in parallel from a script
> (e.g. to run commands on a large number of hosts); without the patch, many
ssh
> sessions simply fail because they cannot contact the agent, rendering the
> mechanism unusable.

Why is SSH failing to communicate with the agent?

--Dan