Improve ControlPersist documentation
Alan Barrett
apb at cequrux.com
Fri Jun 13 17:42:54 EST 2014
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Loïc Le Loarer wrote:
> While testing the ControlPersist option (which is very useful
> by the way, thank you), I find out that setting it to 0 has the
> same behaviour as setting it to yes, while I would have expected
> to exit as soon as the last client exits.
I think it should exit immediately, so the current behaviour of
ControlPersist=0 waiting forever should be considered a bug to be
fixed in code, not a feature to be added to documentation.
> Of course, it would also be a good idea to change the behaviour
> and exits as soon as the last client exits. I tried to change
> the code in this way, but there is an issue in that the control
> background process doesn't even wait for the first client to
> connect...
If fixing it properly is too difficult, then waiting for a very
short time, like 1 second, might be a reasonable compromise.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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