ssh closing file descriptors for ControlPersist

Ángel González keisial at gmail.com
Wed May 27 09:53:10 AEST 2015


On 25/05/15 15:32, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> I understand well, that closing FDs is important for backgrounded 
> [mux] process who is handling IO for all sessions in specific 
> connection. I also understand, that it is good practice to know what 
> are your open file descriptors and close the other "hanging around". 
> But aside all of this, what would be proposal if you would need to 
> preserve this open file descriptor?
Why would you need this open file descriptor?



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