sshd leaking processes

[Frederik Eaton]

> You're using "traditional" netcat (ie 1.10) on the intermediate server?

Yes

> What's happening is that sshd closes the stdio to the "nc" processes
> and waits for it to exit, but the nc process never checks for this
> closure and never exits, thus deadlocks.
>
> You can substitute connect[1] for netcat as it does not have this particular problem.

Thanks a lot, that indeed works.

Frederik

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