ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 10/9/2013 6:19 PM, Don Hatch wrote:
> ssh'ing from a cygwin shell to a linux computer,
> if I run an output-bound command
> (e.g. "yes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")and I try to kill the command
> using ctrl-c, it takes a long time, sometimes several minutes.
> I'd love to get this fixed, as it's the one thing
> that's preventing me from using cygwin/ssh effectively
> as a remote terminal.
>
> The problem occurs in the following situations:
>      - cygwin ssh from windows to linux
>      - cygwin ssh from windows to localhost

WJFFM.  Maybe looking at your cygcheck output will provide a clue?


-- 
Larry

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