Re: ssh cause mintty terminal not to close (tested on 4 cygwin installations)

[Niels Kristian "Ænkå" Jensen <nkj at internetgruppen dot dk>]

On 2018-08-04 00:24, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Niels Kristian Jensen!
>
> > > > This may seem like a minor thing, but we have much trouble with
> > > > Jenkins
> > > > builds (started via Cygwin OpenSSH) which randomly hang forever - I
> > > > wonder
> > > >  if this could be a clue in this investigation.
> > (cut)
> > > Try upgrading your mintty, also, if it's about automated building
> > > environment,
> > > I don't see how's mintty can be involved.
>
> > If the "non-closure" of mintty  is completely internal in mintty and 
> > not
> > a handshake-mistake with the cygwin dll or the OS, then I agree. It
> > seems to be the case, reading the link provided by Thomas Wolff.
>
> What I wanted to say is that I don't understand, why do you use mintty 
> in this
> specific case.
>
> Can you provide a bit more background? Do you use it exclusively to 
> call SSH
> to some remote host?

Hello Andrey,

let's forget about the hanging mintty window. I was chasing a ghost, it 
seems.
Mintty is not involved in the Jenkins automation chain.

I'll write another post where I try to list my trouble and experiments 
with hanging
Jenkins builds invoked via OpenSSH in cygwin on windows slaves/agents.

Best regards,
Niels Kristian Jensen

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