Re: ssh-agent doesn't die

[Tim Adye <T dot J dot Adye at rl dot ac dot uk>]

On 03/11/2019 19:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 27 00:42, Tim Adye wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have noticed a (new?) problem with using ssh-agent to start a session, eg.
> > with
> >
> >    ssh-agent xterm &
> >
> > When the xterm (or whatever) command completes, the ssh-agent process is
> > still left running in the background. It should stop once its subprocess is
> > done.
> >
> > As a simple test example, consider:
> >
> > /bin/ssh-agent /bin/sleep 10
> >
> > While the sleep is still running, ps shows:
> >
> >        PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID   TTY         UID    STIME COMMAND
> >       1694    1693    1694       1576  ?          22534 00:01:10
> > /usr/bin/ssh-agent
> >       1653       1    1653      11740  cons1      22534 00:00:37
> > /usr/bin/bash
> >       1693    1653    1693       1552  cons1      22534 00:01:10
> > /usr/bin/sleep
> > [...]
> > Once the sleep finishes, ps shows:
> >
> >        PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID   TTY         UID    STIME COMMAND
> >       1694    1693    1694       1576  ?          22534 00:01:10
> > /usr/bin/ssh-agent
> >       1653       1    1653      11740  cons1      22534 00:00:37
> > /usr/bin/bash
> >
> > ie. ssh-agent is still running, though its PPID no longer exists.
> I pushed a patch and created new developer snapshots.  Please test the
> latest from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Hi Corinna,

That fixes the problem! With cygwin1-20191103.dll.xz installed as 
/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll, all my ssh-agent processes exit properly.

> Thanks,
> Corinna

Thanks for the excellent fix,
Tim.

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