Dead proxy tunnel not cleared

[Darren Tucker]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> I have been observing the case where some part of the proxy connection(s) 
> break/time out, and the "tunnelconnect" proxy 
> (http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.html) exits.
> 
> The problem is that the process turns into a zombie and _stays_ that way.
> SSH (OpenSSH-3.9p1) does not seem to wait() for it. Looks like a "deadwait".

What platform is this on?  I'm guessing a Linux 2.6 kernel?

You can try the patch here:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967

Someone reported that this doesn't fix ssh2 sessions but I haven't had 
time to look at it again.

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