Keeping or stopping TCP forwardings when the foreground process quits?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Sep 7 22:52:01 AEST 2021


Hi,

Philipp Marek wrote:
> But the TCP forwards still worked - of course,
> as the ControlMaster process was still active!
> 
> What I'd like to ask/discuss is -- perhaps the TCP forwarding should
> (optionally, by default) be bound to the interactive SSH process -
> and when that one quits, the forwarding is stopped?

I'd also like such behavior, but I don't know if the session owner
(the Master process) can reliably tell when a Slave process exits?

A first step might be to enable Slave processes to not only add but
also remove previously established channels?


//Peter


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